Hospitable psychotherapy

Keith Tudor

doi:10.24135/hi.v5i2.109

Abstract

Hospitable psychotherapy

Highlights

Keith Tudor is a professor of psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology, and a certified teaching and supervising transactional analyst
Some psychotherapists have been thinking about their practice in terms of what Donna Orange, clinician and a professor at New York University, refers to as ‘clinical hospitality’ [1]
In promoting this concept as a way of thinking about psychotherapeutic practice, she draws on the work of three French philosophers: Emanuel Lévinas (1906–1995), Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) and Paul Ricœur (1915–2005), all of whom devoted themselves to the discourse of hospitality

Summary

Introduction

Keith Tudor is a professor of psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology, and a certified teaching and supervising transactional analyst. The quality of the contact (by eye contact, a smile, and an open manner), the welcome (‘Kia ora’), and accompaniment to the table (which conveys a sense of being expected) are all crucial elements to setting the scene of what is to come.

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