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 the first of two articles (Depestele, 2008a) we followed how client and therapist create a relationship space, and how boundaries play a vital part with that. In this second article we follow, also on the basis of examples, how certain inherent boundaries within each of these spaces, allow the client to let evolve further his experiencing.
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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.
