ABSTRACT
By exploring various ways to assimilate recent progressive developments and to renew its vital links with its radical roots, Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy: Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm takes a fresh look at this revolutionary therapeutic approach.
Bringing together leading figures in PCT and new writers from around the world, the essays in this book create fertile links with phenomenology, meditation and spirituality, critical theory, contemporary thought and culture, and philosophy of science. In doing so, they create an outline that renews and re-visions person-centred therapy’s radical paradigm, providing fertile material in both theory and practice.
Shot through with clinical studies, vignettes and in-depth discussions on aspects of theory, Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy will be stimulating reading for therapists in training and practice, as well as those interested in the development of PCT.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I
Some kinds of love: person-centred therapy and the relational dimension
chapter 4|14 pages
Walking backwards towards the future
part II|88 pages
The politics of experience
part III|45 pages
Person-centred therapy and spirituality
chapter 14|17 pages
“A kind of liking which has strength” (Carl Rogers)
part IV|54 pages
Person-centred learning and training
chapter 17|10 pages
What do I know and how do I know it?
chapter 18|16 pages
The empathor’s new clothes
part V|79 pages
Challenging some aspects of person-centred practice