Chapter 4.Techniques
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In Chapter 2, “Principles and Mode of Action,” we described the following as principles of supportive psychotherapy: 1) the interaction between patient and therapist is conversational; and 2) the transferential aspects of the relationship are subordinate to the reality aspects of the relationship. Rosenthal (2009) characterized these principles as “contextual techniques” because they underlie all supportive psychotherapy. In this chapter, we describe specific techniques (Table 4–1) that are interventions (a term often used to describe the actions of a therapist). These techniques are employed to maintain the therapeutic alliance—without which nothing can be accomplished—and to achieve the objectives of supportive psychotherapy (described in Chapter 1, “The Concept of Supportive Psychotherapy”): maintaining or improving self-esteem, ego function, and adaptive skills.
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