Therapist and Client: A Relational Approach to Psychotherapy provides a guide to the fundamental interpersonal elements of the therapeutic relationship that make it the most effective factor in therapy. * Presents the fundamental interpersonal elements that make the therapeutic relationship the most effective factor in psychotherapy * Explores and integrates a range of approaches from various schools, from psychoanalysis to body-oriented psychotherapy and humanistic psychotherapies * Offers clear and practical explanations of the intersubjective aspects of therapy * Demonstrates the pivotal need to work in the present moment in order to effect change and tailor therapy to the client * Provides detailed case studies and numerous practical applications of infant research and the unified body-mind perspective increasingly revealed by neuroscience