The Seba library treats Rapport in 8 passages, across 6 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Harding, Esther, Simpson, D. Dwayne).
Rapport consists essentially in a feeling of agreement in spite of acknowledged differences. Indeed, the recognition of existing differences, if it be mutual, is itself a rapport, a feeling of agreement.
Jung provides the canonical depth-psychological definition of rapport, identifying it as a paradoxical consensus that subsists through — not despite — the acknowledgment of typological difference.
, Psychological Types, 1921thesis
She must have the difficulty straightened out and the rapport on the feeling side reestablished before she can give herself to him again in any real sense.
Harding argues that for women the restoration of feeling-side rapport is the necessary precondition for genuine sexual surrender, making rapport a somatic-psychological barometer of relational health.
, the way of all women, 1970thesis
it appears to be secondary to the counseling relationship which is variously referred to as rapport, personal bonding, or therapeutic alliance.
Simpson situates rapport as the most clinically decisive variable in drug-treatment outcomes, equating it with the broader constructs of personal bonding and therapeutic alliance across multiple treatment settings.
, A conceptual framework for drug treatment process and outcomes, 2004thesis
if they are truly in love with each other, the relationship between them has one great asset to set over against the disintegrating effect of the friction, namely their mutual sexual involvement.
Harding frames the instinctual bond as the primary counterweight to relational friction, providing context for her subsequent argument that rapport must be actively restored rather than assumed.
, the way of all women, 1970supporting
The psychological relationship between analyst and patient or analysand, so central to any therapeutic activity, is relatively neglected in the practice and literature of Jungians.
Jacoby registers that the intersubjective analytic relationship — the matrix within which rapport operates — has been systematically undertheorized in Jungian clinical writing.
, The Analytic Encounter: Transference and Human Relationship, 1984supporting
the relationship to the doctor can so raise the level of the patient’s consciousness as to enable him to overcome the complex and assimilate it.
Jung identifies the quality of the therapeutic relationship — the ground of rapport — as the mechanism by which abreaction’s limitations are overcome and complex-assimilation becomes possible.
, The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and Other Subjects, 1954supporting
the analyst is often accused of having snake’s eyes, of magnetizing or hypnotizing people, of forcing them to come back to him, of not letting them go.
Jung reflects on the way misattributed projections distort the analytic rapport, transforming a relational bond into a quasi-magical compulsion in the patient’s experience.
, Collected Works Volume 18: The Symbolic Life, 1976supporting
they regarded one another as equally full of vivacity and imagination, but at that early stage, on different sides of the fence.
Addenbrooke illustrates through a clinical narrative how initial therapeutic rapport can coexist with oppositional positioning, serving as the relational substrate that persists even when direct agreement is absent.
, Survivors of Addiction: Narratives of Recovery, 2011aside