 Hello and welcome to MIP TV. With me is the veritable Bob Cook from the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy. Bob is going to help us and review one of his most favourite books. It's Modes of Therapeutic Action, I believe, isn't it, Bob? Yes, by Martha Stock. What's tiddled you fancy with this book, Bob? I've had this book for a long time, since it came out in 2000, actually. It's not a TA book, but it's one of my favourite books, and it became a really seminal book. And if you go to most training institutes, you'll find that this book is on their reading list. And it talks about modes of therapeutic action, and Martha Stock talks about three particular modes, which she calls mode one, mode one and a half, and mode three. Very quickly, then. Mode one is where the therapist or the analyst takes centre stage, where they will give interpretations, they will come in with techniques, like in TA, classical TA, everyone likes interpretive techniques like game analysis, calm and triangle, but he'd come in with the interpretation. He'd come in with the treatment plan, if you like. He would be interpreting that. He would be the expert, wouldn't he? He would be the expert, and the client would come into the picture. So that's why she would call it mode one, because the expert is there, the therapist is there, and interprets the therapeutic process or the insight for the client. And really, that was the sort of expert, if you like, process of psychoanalysis was set up with, but it was very much one down, if you like. It was the analyst, sorry, the client who, through free association, lying on the couch with the expert giving a few interpretations, was the major order of the day. So that's the mode one. And mode one and a half, which is really where the therapist comes into the picture and does talk about the history of the client, and the client comes into the picture, but more from the therapist still looking for the deficit. So the therapist may self-discourse, but it's usually in a more like a reparenting school, if you like, or a reparenting process where the therapist still doesn't really share the countertransference or talk about what's happening in the relationship. So the relationship still isn't the focus. It's more of a focus, but it's certainly a developmental process. It's still not good to bilateral exchange, really, between the therapist and the client. And then in 1992, you got the revolutionist psychotherapy, where most schools of thought started to see the focus of the relationship as a vehicle for cure. So the third mode is just basically both the therapist and the client being in a relationship together and where the therapist would have a focus on that relationship and bring their own selves into the relationship and also encourage the client to share the power in the relationship. Yeah, this is what we call sometimes called a co-created relationship, isn't it? Yes, yeah. And I think that's where you see a lot of the focus for many of the different psychotherapy schools heading to the therapist and the client being the focus through the relationship. What she's called mode two. Oh, interesting. Yeah, so it really tracks the arc of the relationship within psychotherapeutic work through being very, very expert led right to the point where it's now a co-created relationship where the client and therapist collaborate together for the benefit of the clients. Yeah, it's quite a, I think it's about 250-300 pages. She cites quite a bit of research and it's very important for psychotherapy trainees or students of psychotherapy looking at what you've just said, the history of the relationship and the, to date, now we're focusing on the relationship as cure back in, of course, pre-1940, it was very much about how the analysts stayed out of the relationship rather than being in the relationship. Yes, a complete sea change, isn't it? You know, moving from even using the term analog sand, which was what was used, wasn't it? For clients who are called analog sand to clients, you know, some more equally of power. Well, it sounds a fascinating book, Bob, and I'm guessing for trainee or even a practitioner it's going to be really useful just to see just how it's changed and that important sea change that you mentioned in 1992. Yeah, if you went into a psychotherapy bookshop pre-1930, 1940, you wouldn't find any books talking about the relationship between the therapist and the client in an equal manner. All the books would be about how you stayed out of the relationship. Yeah. So there's a real sea change, as you said. Yeah. So there's a fabulous book, and Marta Stark is really well known. She writes well. And even if you're not a student of psychotherapy, but just interested, like you just said about the development of the use of relationship in the therapeutic process, it's a very valuable book. It sounds it, Bob. And what we'll do is at the end of this video, we'll put a picture up on the title. If you go to the link below, click on the link below, you can click on and go to the distributor who sells the book. I want to mention that this isn't a paid placement or a paid promotion. This is just Bob and me talking around Bob's favourite books. So thank you so much for sharing that book, Bob. Thank you. And we will see you in the next one. We will. And we'll be up to number 13, I believe, because this is number 12. It is. So we'll see you at book review 13. Thank you very much. Yes. 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