Art of Counselling and Psychotherapy

Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla is a professor of psychotherapeutic medicine at the University of Heidelberg and a training analyst in the International Psychoanalytical Association. He also teaches at various psychotherapeutic training institutions.

• Foreword -- Introduction and overview -- Creativity -- Three examples of counselling and psychotherapy -- Hermeneutics: the art of creative understanding and life management -- Aesthetic experience and shaping of reality -- Creative principles of psychotherapy -- Creative principles of counselling and coaching -- The creative aspect of brief dynamic psychotherapy -- The creative aspect of psychoanalysis -- Indications and counter-indications for the creative attitude -- Professional and "ordinary" relationships -- Ethical implications -- Artistic shaping and resolution of psychic conflicts -- Summary