I did learn some things from the reading and it certainly has me questioning myself and what I do in the room with clients (which is a good thing). The study of the effects of therapist–client matching of personality variables is not new to the science of psychotherapy. It is so easy to read and understand and a great introduction to what can happen between therapist and client. from recent news from local tele-jornals, around 70% of the "pedófilos" of the world, are at the brazilian land! We would not expect this finding actually to be validated, since it is more likely that clients would probably terminate therapy (or be hospitalized) before worsening to the extent suggested by the regression line.

The Structural Profile was originally a verbally administered tool 25 that consisted of describing the seven modalities and requesting the client's self-rating for each. The implications of this finding for marital and other interpersonal relationships are that when individuals share dominant modalities, their communication will most likely be clearer and a more productive interpersonal relationship will result. Overall I find that Kahn sets a realistic and honest view of how the therapeutic relationship should look like and which factors are important, he does that in a not too rigid way, which gives space for the particular character of a therapist himself.Perhaps the most important aspect of the therapeutic process is the relationship between therapist and client. In addition, the therapists' demographics questionnaire requested philosophical orientation, degree sought, and years of psychotherapeutic experience.

The intake consent form, requesting only the therapist's name, the name of the clinic, and the therapist's signature to affirm that the client had signed his or her consent form, was included to ensure the client's anonymity. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Analyses of the relationship between client–therapist similarity on the Multimodal SPI and psychotherapy outcome confirmed the experimental hypothesis. Transference is an enormous source for discovery and learning and it seems very effective to deal with it in the session room.

I can only agree wholeheartedly with some of the reviews on the back cover 'the valuable integration of humanistic psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis brings into exquisite focus the understanding of the therapist-patient relationship as the essential ingredient of therapeutic change'; ' an unexpected pleasure, readable at all levels . Beginning with Freud's discovery of transference, Kahn traces the history of the clinical relationship from Carl Rogers' introduction of humanistic concerns through Merton Gill's theory and technique of transference analysis, to the pioneering work of Heinz Kohut, who has most successfully brought together psychoanalytic and humanistic thought. Herman 23 has already demonstrated that when therapists and clients differ in their modality structures, early psychotherapy impact suffers. In these analyses, it was observed that dropout could not be predicted by D 2, D′ 2, or D″ 2 statistics or by most therapist demographic data. The Chapter about obstructive (complimentary) and useful (concordant) countertransference confused me.