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Unless the client walks in with a placard saying i remind you of your mother, I assume that what I feel is pretty much what everyone else feels. Minimally, I can use my reaction as data to help me arrive at a diagnosis—a relational diagnosis, not a psychiatric one.

Basically, the Turner-Beidel program is divided into three parts. The first involves becoming aware of your social environment; it teaches you when, where, and why to begin and end a variety of interactions. The second part—interpersonal skills enhancement—covers verbal and non-verbal aspects of these interactions: how to be a good listener, how to

Hence games are both necessary and desirable, and the only problem at issue is whether the games played by an individual offer the best yield for him.

As you recall, one of the most important roles we play in our partners’ lives is providing a secure base: creating the conditions that enable our partners to pursue their interests and explore the world in confidence.

Just as surgeons must first learn anatomy, the future “Angst doctor” must first understand the relationship between the one who counsels and the one who is counseled. And, if I am to contribute to the science of such counseling, I must learn to observe the counseling relationship just as objectively as the pigeon’s brain.

In addition to the three psychological schools of thought described by Pine, recent years have seen the development of a fourth: mentalisation theory (Fonagy & Bateman, 2006). This theory reserves a central place for the ability of people to correctly assess their own and others’ mental states. People develop this ability via “attachment”, the