COVER -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- EDITORS' FOREWORD -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION The return of the therapeutic relationship in systemic therapy -- PART I NEW EXPLORATIONS- MAINLY THEORY -- CHAPTER 1 Leaving well alone: a systemic perspective on the therapeutic relationship -- CHAPTER 2 Understanding the therapeutic relationship: using psychoanalytic ideas in the systemic context -- CHAPTER 3 Empathy and the therapeutic relationship in systemic-oriented therapies: a historical and clinical overview -- CHAPTER 4 Embedded and embodied in the therapeutic relationship: understanding the therapist's use of self systemically -- CHAPTER 5 To embrace paradox (once more, with feeling): a commentary on narrative/ conversational therapies and the therapeutic relationship -- DISCUSSION PAPER I You cannot not relate -- PART II NEW EXPLORATIONS- MAINLY PRACTICE -- CHAPTER 6 The therapeutic moment: a double-sided drama -- CHAPTER 7 A systemic therapy unravelled: in through the out door -- CHAPTER 8 From both sides now: the therapeutic relationship from the viewpoint of therapist and client -- CHAPTER 9 Cross-purposes: relationship patterns in public welfare -- CHAPTER 10 Personal relationships in systemic supervision -- DlSCUSSlON PAPER II Changing systemic constructions of therapeutic relationships -- INDEX.