IJSP Number 1, 2019

34 the experienced ones. In this section’s content, ways of preventing the dysfunctions which occur in the healing therapy process are presented, but also settings for those therapy relations, which reached a critical point. 2. COORDINATES OF A FUNCTIONAL THERAPY RELATIONSHIP There are a lot of papers on the importance of the therapy relation, especially because it is a valuable instrument in the psychotherapeutic process, maybe the most valuable tool, unanimously known by the representatives of this field. Referring to the therapeutic alliance, which incorporates the therapy relation, O. M. Popescu and L. I. Vîşcu, define this as being: “the emotional co-operative connection between the client and the clinician who have a common objective, the alliance having three components: connection, objectives and tasks” [1]. These three components refer to the therapeutic connection itself, which according to the same authors, presumes a potentiating and appreciating connection. The task represents the agreement and the cooperation during the therapeutic activity and the goals taken into account, together with the agreement set by them and the common effort of achieving these goals. Some of the characteristics of a functional therapy relationship are represented both by the existence of these three components and by: the incorporation in this connection of the empathy, warmth and authenticity proposed by Rogers [2], the creation of a safe and acceptable environment and of course, the determining of an affective connection between the two of them. A functional therapy relationship also implies, from the therapist, the awareness of transfers and counter-transfers, the setting of some limits which have a role and place in therapy and all these must be explained to the client, together with the identification and the admission of mistakes when these are produced. 3. DYSFUNCTIONAL THERAPY RELATIONS. TYPICAL MANIFESTATIONS. CAUSES AND EXAMPLES. 3.1. THERAPIST-CLIENT COMPATIBILITY A first remark in the beginning of any therapy refers to the therapist-client compatibility, and this is first of all related to the contact at the emotional level between the two of them (the emotional compatibility), to the therapist’s ability to empathize with the client in his/her problem and in a direct connection with the client’s capacity to feel/perceive this fact. One can talk also about the