The Place of Failure and Rupture in Psychotherapy

Carole Shadbolt
The Place of Failure and Rupture in Psychotherapy

In this recorded session, Carole Shadbolt discusses, expands upon, and answers questions about her influential article The Place of Failure and Rupture in Psychotherapy. Her work explores rupture and failure within transactional analysis psychotherapy from ethical, cultural, theoretical, and clinical perspectives.

Working within a relational frame of reference, Carole highlights how failure and rupture are not only inevitable but necessary parts of the therapeutic encounter. She describes a relational therapeutic sequence and offers a fresh relational aspect to Berne’s (1972) game formula, illustrated with a rich clinical case example.

This recording is ideal for psychotherapists and transactional analysts interested in working more deeply and openly with rupture and repair in the therapy room.

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Video lecture with article – 1 hr 48 mins. This webinar was originally recorded on the 22nd Feb 2022

Read More About the Speaker – Carole Shadbolt lives and practices in the United Kingdom. In a long career, she originally trained as a social worker and worked both as a generic as well as a specialist psychiatric social worker at The Maudsley Hospital, part of the Institute of Psychiatry in London. She qualified as a Transactional Analyst Metanoia under the tutelage of Petruska Clarkson, Sue Fish and Maria Gilbert. Carole worked as a tutor for many years at Metanoia Institute on their MSc in Relational Transactional Analysis programme. She maintains an independent psychotherapy and supervisory practice in Oxfordshire. A relational psychotherapist by instinct, Carole is a published author and a founder member of the International Association of Relational Transactional Analysis and serves on their Steering group. She has been “out” since the late seventies, and her abiding interest is in LGBTQ + issues and diversity.