Relating in Psychotherapy: The Application of a New Theory

‘Birtchnell has developed instruments for measuring incompetence in relating [ ] and gives instances of both research and clinical use of these in a lucid manner that draws the reader like a magnet.’ – Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal

‘I commend this book to you. The theory cuts across all forms (schools) of therapy, and is a way of describing each school in terms of relating, in both the client and the therapist … I hope it will be widely read.’ – Dale Mathers, Member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology

‘For individual, group, couple and family therapists, Relating in Psychotherapy does an excellent job of providing a theory that helps in thinking about two important aspects of human relating (proximity and power), measuring difficulty in these areas, and providing a psychotherapeutic approach that is valid in many formats and the effect of which is measurable.’ – Jill Savege Scharff, International Institute of Object Relations Therapy, Washington

‘This book is easy to read, well structured, and demonstrates the author’s wide knowledge of different psychotherapies The author should be congratulated for his painstaking work in developing a theory, putting it into practice, and producing meaningful measurement. This is a formidable attempt to produce an evidence-based psychotherapy.’ – Anthony W. Bateman, Secretary of the Psychotherapy Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

‘Birtchnell has developed instruments for measuring incompetence in relating [ ] and gives instances of both research and clinical use of these in a lucid manner that draws the reader like a magnet.’ – Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal

John Birtchnell is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry and Honorary Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, London. He is the author of How Humans Relate: A New Interpersonal Theory, (Psychology Press, 1996).