Working Relationally and Developmentally in Integrative Psychotherapy: Facilitating Significant Change
Authors
Silvia Allari
Keywords:
Group therapy, integrative psychotherapy, relational needs, relational group therapy, reactive and responsive countertransference, therapeutic relationship, Richard Erskine
Abstract
This article describes a developmentally based, relationally focused integrative psychotherapy with a man who, as the result of an injury in infancy, had come to believe that “I will never have a good life.” The author recounts this person’s individual psychotherapy and the therapeutic work he did in the context of a relational group process. The therapeutic descriptions highlight the concept of relational needs.
