This text provides coverage of the uses & abuses of the therapeutic relationship in counselling psychology psychotherapy & related fields. It provides a framework for integration pluralism or deepening singularity with reference to five kinds of therapeutic relationship potentially available in every kind of counselling or psychodynamic work. The work incoporates training & supervision perspectives & examples of course design uses in assessment & applications to group & couples as well as to organizations. Dealing with an issue of increasing complexity the book should be of value & significance to psychotherapists psychoanalysts clinical & counselling psychologists & other professionals working in the field of helping human relationships such as doctors social workers teachers & counsellors.