abstractThe importance of developing a certain consciousness in which one is present and autonomous while being intimately interconnected with larger meaning is an important dimension of a relational approach to psychotherapy. Based on the premise that both client and therapist bring something of themselves and of their respective past emotional experience to the therapeutic relationship, a relational approach to therapy is very attentive to the dynamics in the therapy room. It stresses the co�creation of the therapeutic relationship at conscious, explicit verbal levels and unconscious, implicit levels of functioning, and establishes the therapist’s emotional behaviour as a significant factor in fostering change (Aron, 1996).Therapist responsiveness to client’s affective impact is discus…
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The dawn of a new identity: aspects of a relational approach to psychotherapy with a transsexual client