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Reflecties over de cliëntgerichte therapie vanuit het perspectief van gehechtheid en mentaliseren

ARTICLEAllen, Jon - 49–4 (2011)

SUMMARY

In this essay, Carl Rogers will move fluidly between foreground and background. I start by
highlighting the importance of preserving Rogers’s frame of reference as we grapple with
proliferating empirically supported, brand-name treatments. Then I will discuss an alternative
to proliferating more brand-name therapies, namely, focusing on common factors
and mechanisms of change. Next I will advocate giving center stage to attachment and
mentalizing as candidates for fundamental common factors. Partly because they are so well
anchored in developmental research, I consider attachment and mentalizing to be valuable
refinements to Rogers’s way of thinking about the therapeutic basis of the client-therapist
relationship. I conclude this essay by synthesizing these developmental perspectives with a
broad ethical framework which might guide our conduct of psychotherapy.

KEYWORDS

Rogers, mentalizing, attachment, client-centered therapy, humanity

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.