Review(s) of: On becoming a Jungian sandplay therapist: The healing spirit of sandplay in nature and in therapy, by Lenore Steinhardt, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2013. PB. RRP $42.95.
Refugee experiences are complex interactions of torture, trauma, exile, migration, settlement, and normal life cycle issues. These experiences are further complicated by the impact of national and international events. They can give rise to a deep sense of loss - loss of family, friends, status, dignity, culture, and one's homeland.
I n this column I want to tackle a particularly controversial topic, that of dual relationships within the context of training. I am not talking about sexual/romantic relationships between trainers and their students, which I, like most people, strongly condemn. But there are other practices within training environments often referred to as 'dual relationships' and some deserve more thoughtful consideration than they seem to have received to date. Here I suspect that political correctness can result in prescriptions that are destructive of optimal educational outcomes. In past columns, I have argued that, even though counselling trainees may derive therapeutic benefits from being in training, we cannot simply transfer the same principles and practices that govern the conduct of counselling relationships to the training environment. Specifically.
In 1963, the first issue of the journal Psychotherapy appeared. Responding to findings reported in a previous publication by Eysenck (1952), Strupp wrote of the "staggering research problems" (p. 2) confronting the field and the necessity of conducting "properly planned an executed experimental studies" to resolve questions about the process and outcome of psychotherapy. Today, both the efficacy and effectiveness of psychotherapy has been well established. Despite the consistent findings substantiating the field's worth, a significant question remains the subject of debate: how does psychotherapy work? On this subject, debate continues to divide the profession. In this paper, a "way out" is proposed informed by research on the therapist's contribution to treatment outcome and findings from studies on the acquisition of expertise.
