Contemporary Relational Therapy Case Study

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The basic approach to contemporary relational theory is fostering relationships through a two person, client and therapist, approach to treatment. The use of self-disclosure is a method to utilize to foster the relationship with the client in therapy. Enactments in relational theory are the interactions between the client and therapist that reenact the client’s past experiences with others. These enactments occur at an unconscious level and can be managed in therapy by recognizing that the transference of the client’s feelings and unconscious reaction experiences. According to Berzoff et al (2016), “transference always needs to be viewed as a joint creation between the therapist and patient” (p. 253). In the case of Donna, enactment may be

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