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Self-Disclosure in the Therapeutic Relationship

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Editors:
  1. George Stricker

    1. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, Garden City, USA

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  2. Martin Fisher

    1. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, Garden City, USA

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Shared Experience and Self-Disclosure

      • Martin Fisher
      Pages 3-15

    3. Self-Disclosure in Religious Spiritual Direction

      • Bede J. Healey
      Pages 17-27

  3. Theoretical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. Self-Disclosure and Classical Psychoanalysis

      • Robert C. Lane, James W. Hull
      Pages 31-46

    3. Show and Tell

      • Sabert Basescu
      Pages 47-59

    4. Self-Disclosure in Rational-Emotive Therapy

      • Windy Dryden
      Pages 61-74

    5. Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy and the Psychology of the Self

      • Lawrence Josephs
      Pages 75-89

  5. Therapeutic Modalities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Self-Disclosure and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents

      • Nicholas Papouchis
      Pages 157-174

    3. Self-Disclosure in Psychotherapy

      • Lisa R. Greenberg
      Pages 175-189

    4. Self-Disclosure in Group Psychotherapy

      • Sophia Vinogradov, Irvin D. Yalom
      Pages 191-204

  6. Extratherapeutic Manifestations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Criteria for Therapist Self-Disclosure

      • Judith C. Simon
      Pages 207-225
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About this book

The editors of the present volume were also privileged to collaborate on an earlier book, Intimacy, also published by Plenum Press. In our pref­ ace to that volume, we described the importance and essence of inti­ macy and its centrality in the domain of human relationships. After reading the contributions to that volume, a number of issues emerged and pressed for elaboration. These questions concerned the nature and parameters of intimacy. The natural extension of these con­ cerns can be found in the current work, Self-Disclosure in the Therapeutic Relationship. The editors, after careful consideration of the theoretical, philo­ sophical, and technical literature, are impressed by the relationship between intimacy and appropriate self-disclosure. Self-disclosure, in this context, refers to those behaviors that allow oneself to be suffi­ ciently revealing so as to become available for an intimate relationship. Levenson has referred to psychotherapy as the demystification of expe­ rience wherein intimacy emerges during the time that interpersonal vigilance diminishes through growing feelings of safety. Interpersonal experience can be demystified and detoxified by disclosure, openness, and authentic relatedness. This is not an easy process. Before one can be open, make contact, or reach out with authenticity, one must be available to oneself. This means making contact with-and accepting-the dark, fearful, and of­ ten untouched areas within the person that are often hidden even from oneself. The process of therapy enables those areas to gain conscious­ ness, be tolerated, and be shared with trusted others.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, Garden City, USA

    George Stricker, Martin Fisher

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Self-Disclosure in the Therapeutic Relationship

  • Editors: George Stricker, Martin Fisher

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3582-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43448-8Published: 30 April 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-3584-7Published: 11 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-3582-3Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 296

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry

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