Therapy Toronto Psychotherapy Definitions

Inter-subjectivity

This hybrid approach attempts to bridge the gap between the intrapsychic and interpersonal schools of thought.

Neither is a mere 'object' to the other. It holds that each of us enters any relationship with a complex personal subjectivity. Thus we ought not to take others at face value, and we should recognize that our own responses to others are affected by our own issues. A corollary is that within a therapy, the therapist must take into account the way in which his or her own subjectivity influences the way in which he or she responds professionally to the client.

Psychotherapy glossary by Toronto Therapy Network is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at definitions.TherapyToronto.ca.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://TherapyToronto.ca/copyright.phtml.