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In Relational Psychotherapy, Dr. Jeremy D. Safran demonstrates his integrative approach to therapy. Relational psychotherapy explores client relationship patterns, both inside and outside of the therapy room itself. The task of therapy is to work collaboratively to understand what is going on between the therapist and client and to look for the relational meaning in everything that arises in therapy, from responses to interventions to client–therapist interaction.
In this session, Dr. Safran works with a woman in her 30s who separated from her husband but is considering giving her marriage another try. Dr. Safran and the client discuss her marriage and explore past trauma that may continue to affect her current relationships.
Relational psychotherapy reflects a number of different influences including: interpersonal psychoanalysis, object relations theory, self psychology, feminist and postmodern thinking, infant–mother developmental research (including research on attachment theory), developments in emotion theory and research, and both theory and research on therapeutic impasses.
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is professor of psychology and director of clinical training at the New School for Social Research. He is also senior research scientist at Beth Israel Medical Center. In addition, he is a faculty member at the New York University postdoctoral program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and a faculty member at the Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. He is also a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
He is on the editorial board of Psychotherapy Research and is an associate editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Safran has published more than 100 articles and chapters and several books, including Emotion in Psychotherapy, Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance: A Relational Treatment Guide, The Therapeutic Alliance in Brief Psychotherapy, Interpersonal Process in Cognitive Therapy, and Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: An Unfolding Dialogue. He and his colleagues have conducted research on the topic of therapeutic impasses for the past 2 decades.
Dr. Safran is also known for his work on the topic of emotion in psychotherapy and for his integration of principles from Buddhist psychology into Western psychotherapy.
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