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In this paper, we present our development of a previously articulated approach to counselling education of transformational learning through a relational dynamic approach (Macaskie et al., 2013). We replace the idea of integration with a values-based approach and supplement the notion of transformational relational learning with a not-knowing attitude. This perspective on education and learning in counselling parallels the attitude within psychotherapy that we teach our students. We argue that this unites relational approaches to learning and psychotherapy across modalities and offers a trans-theoretical approach that could explain the common factors research in psychotherapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This short paper starts with a sketch of the current status of biopsychosocial medicine and of the relation between psychoanalysis and science. It claims that these two traditions and concepts in their current state can learn from each other in their shared aim of making subjective experience of patients, a central dimension of human illness and disease, a focal point of of diagnosis and therapy. The book "Mentalizing the body" by Ulrich Schultz-Venrath serves as an important example of this common learning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]