Posts by Dr. Giorgio Tasca

The relationship quality between therapist and patient is a therapeutic factor that can lead to...

Perfectionism represents a broad and multidimensional personality vulnerability for mental...

Countertransference is one of the oldest concepts in psychotherapy. Freud first discussed it in...

The therapeutic alliance is one of the most researched concepts in psychotherapy. It refers to the...

Emotional crying, a unique human trait, is crucial to communicating emotions. Previous research has...

Many people have concealable stigmatized identities, which may include a history of mental illness,...

The therapeutic alliance is the agreement between the psychotherapist and the patient on the tasks...

Previous studies suggest that researchers tend to prefer one therapy orientation and that this...

Few psychotherapy studies focus on the patient’s experience. Researchers often ask patients to fill...

Therapist empathy is one of the common factors of psychotherapy that is important to all types of...