The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.

The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.

Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.

Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.

Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.