Boundaries in psychotherapy can be considered from the idea that the therapy process itself searches its own boundaries in order to create the spaces within which it can develop. Therapy can be conceived as a process that develops in a number of consecutive spaces (Depestele, 2000; 2004). In this first of two articles we follow how client and therapist first of all create a relationship space, within which in an implicit as well as an explicit way much can happen therapeutically because various aspects of a common relationship are excluded. Certain inherent boundaries within the relationship space will open the way to the deeper spaces within which the client can let evolve further his experiencing (see second article: Depestele, 2008b).
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The tPeP (Journal Person-centered experiential Psychotherapy) is the scientific journal for Dutch and Flemish psychotherapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, that work from, or are interested in a client-centered perspective.
