Rosenblatt Paul C
Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, 290 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
Am J Psychother. 2009;63(2):169-81. doi: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2009.63.2.169.
In this paper, the case is made that providing therapy to a client can be therapeutic for the therapist. Therapist change is not intentionally sought nor professionally delivered, but is from those client interactions experienced as healing. The possible mechanisms of change for the therapist include exposure of much about him- or herself being "on the line" in therapy, and the therapeutic relationship as a collaborative, two-way system. In the collaborative system, much might affect a therapist, including how the client understands and reacts to the therapist's disposition, motivation, self-disclosure, and skill and what the client reveals about his or her life that may lead the therapist to a new sense of her or his own life.
本文认为，为来访者提供治疗对治疗师而言也具有治疗作用。治疗师的改变并非有意为之，也不是专业引导的结果，而是源于在治疗中与来访者互动时所体验到的治愈感。治疗师发生改变的可能机制包括在治疗过程中暴露自己的诸多方面，以及治疗关系作为一个协作性的双向系统。在这个协作系统中，许多因素可能会影响治疗师，包括来访者如何理解并回应治疗师的性情、动机、自我表露、技能，以及来访者所透露的自身生活情况，这些可能会使治疗师对自己的生活产生新的认识。
