In the global environment it is important to move counselling from a fundamental reliance on
psychological insights to a view that incorporates a radically different perspective. The …

This paper provides a philosophical analysis of self-knowledge or insight in psychotherapy.
Our aim is to make sense of the idea—central to therapeutic practice—that insight can have …

The Therapeutic Use of Self has continued, since its publication in 1999, to be considered a
key text within integrative, humanistic and relational approaches for the training and …

How do patients internalize new good object experience and how do these previously
closed systems open up? What happens within and between analyst and patient that leads …

Therapeutic use of self pertains to a particular collection of personal or human qualities
consciously or deliberately employed when engaging with individuals in a therapeutic …

Finding acceptable solutions for the thorny issue of self-revelation is essential to using our
selves. In any meaningful encounter it is impossible not to reveal a great deal. How we …

Among the spiritual competencies. Competencies 3, 4, and 5 highlight the importance of
counselors' continual self-exploration and self-evaluation and limit recognition when …

Each counsellor brings his or her personal qualities or what is sometimes referred to in the
literature as the “counsellor's self,” when working with clients. The aim of this paper is to …

The process of making meaning is a core determinant of human experience. Understanding
this process, developmentally, is a vital part of integral counseling. In this article, the authors …

A specific competence for counselling psychologists is to 'understand therapy through their
own life-experience'(HCPC, 2010: 19) which is usually interpreted as a requirement for …