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The effort to define the concept of the psychotherapeutic stance can be said to be about discerning the core of psychotherapeutic work. The psychotherapeutic stance has received remarkably little attention and remains largely unspecified in the contemporary therapy literature, which more or less presupposes the existence of a tacit consensus on what it means to adopt a psychotherapeutic stance or position or that the specific implications of the concept are somehow self-explanatory within a given treatment theory and method, which is far from the case. This chapter offers a brief outline of some of the main elements of what could be called a dynamic-relational understanding of pathology and psychotherapy.
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Jørgensen, C. (2019). The Basis of the Psychotherapeutic Stance. In: The Psychotherapeutic Stance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20437-2_8
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