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- The term therapeutic impasse may be used to describe a number of situations that can arise in psychotherapy. Impasses can occur as a result of disagreement between the therapist and client, unacknowledged issues within therapy, or stagnation in therapy. When an impasse first occurs, therapy stops making progress.
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Rory summarises in plain English what therapeutic impasse is: ‘stuckness’. He and Ken then go on to discuss some of the possible reasons for this, including: thin material; transference or countertransference; the diversity that is not fully understood by the counsellor
Apr 16, 2014 · In this article, we provide an overview of our research program on therapeutic impasses and alliance ruptures. Beginning in the mid-1980s at the University of Toronto, and continuing in New York at Beth Israel Medical Center since the early 1990s, we have focused our efforts on trying to illuminate the processes associated with resolving ...
- Jeremy D. Safran, J. Christopher Muran, Alexandra Shaker
- 2014
This book describes a pluralistic model of therapeutic impasse and its resolution through the carefully planned use of critical interventions—one-shot events that give a new direction to a therapy or a patient's life.
- Haim Omer
- 1994
However, there is arisk for therapeutic impasse in long-term psychotherapy in which the work can become repetitive or with limited gains over time. The current paper provides five transtheoretical principles to increase the impetus in long-term therapy.
This volume deals with a fundamental issue that all clinicians face at some time or other: the therapeutic impasse. Based on years of clinical and consultation work, Sue Nathanson Elkind presents a theoretical framework for understanding and working with the relational knots that occur between therapists and their patients.
Jul 28, 2004 · A process of reflection is proposed as a way out of the impasse. In that process, the inner conversation of the therapist is externalized with the help of an outsider. In the final part of this article, a case study illustrates the importance of these ideas for the family therapy practice.
