Publication details
Transformar un remolino en un flujo. La experiencia del terapeuta con el cliente deprimido
| Title in English | Transforming a whirlpool into a flow: the therapist in the depressed situation |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Revista figura fondo |
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| Web | https://revistafigurafondo.com/ |
| Keywords | depression; therapist´s experience; coping strategies; field theory |
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| Description | The article offers the phenomenological observation and theoretical conceptualisation of such therapists’ feelings and coping impulses that appear in the therapy situation with a depressed client. These experiences can be explored and used for the field diagnosis as a description of a depression specific pattern by which the relational field is organized here and now in the clinical situation. A theoretical model is presented that can be used by therapists to find orientation in their experiences and inspiration for coping with them when in contact with a depressed client. The concept of psychopathology of a situation is introduced, and implications for practice are offered suggesting that it is not so important what the therapist actually does, but how she is with the depressed client. |