Which therapeutic relationship?

Processing the therapeutic relationship.

The authors propose that if therapists and clients process their therapeutic relationship (i.e., directly address in the here and now feelings about each other and about the inevitable problems that emerge in the therapy relationship), feelings will be expressed and accepted, problems will be resolved, the relationship will be enhanced, and clients will transfer their learning to other relation...

Rights within the therapeutic relationship.

Optimal Experience and Meaning: Which Relationship?

A large number of studies conducted in the last twenty years show that optimal experience is a positive and complex condition in which cognitive, motivational and emotional components coexist in a coherent and articulated reciprocal integration. By virtue of its positive psychological features, optimal experience has been sometimes misunderstood as a state which automatically brings about well-...

Cardiac index during therapeutic hypothermia: which target value is optimal?

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2013 and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at

The therapeutic relationship in involuntary inpatient care

Background Involuntary treatment in a psychiatric hospital is often a long, complicated process likely to elicit strong feelings in patients experiencing it. Relationships with hospital staff members might have an impact on patients' experiences and emotions. Qualitative research in this area would offer a better understanding of patients' views on the role of the ward staff and their involveme...