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A Mandate for Honesty: Jeff Young's No Bullshit Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2012

Ron Findlay
Ron Findlay
Affiliation:
The Bouverie Centre, 50 Flemington Street, Flemington Victoria 3031. ph: + 61 39376 9844.r.findlay@latrobe.edu.au
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Abstract

Jeff Young talks about having been trained to be formal with clients, and his gradual realisation that he could return to the more direct ways of speech he learned as a child, and combine that with warmth. He found that clients and fellow professionals welcomed a therapist who did not ‘beat around the bush’. Together, Jeff and Ron talk about when directness is appropriate, and how directness needs to be modified for particular clients.

Keywords

directness in psychotherapygenuineness in psychotherapytherapeutic contract
Type
Interview
Information
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , 01 September 2007 , pp. 165 - 170
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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