Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice

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`At the risk of being directive, I would say you should buy this book. It contains some of the most stimulating and refreshing ideas to have emerged in the person-centred literature since On Becoming a Person '- Person Centred Practice

Person-Centred Therapy Today

makes a timely and significant contribution to the development of one of the most popular and widely-used therapeutic approaches.

`This is a book that is rooted in the origins of person-centred therapy but stands at the cutting edge of new ideas developing in this tradition. It will reinvigorate those of us already immersed in this tradition. It should convince newcomers of the vitality and potential of this approach to thera

 

Contents

Is Therapy Losing its Humanity?
17
Spiritual
54
AntiIntellectual Unmanly
73
The Nature of Configurations within Self
101
PersonCentred Therapy with Configurations of Self
120
Advancing PersonCentred Theory
172
Facilitating
196
Dangers and Opportunities
212
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Dave Mearns is formerly Director of the Counselling Unit and Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Dave is author or co-author of four other counselling books published by SAGE: Person-Centred Counselling in Action, Second Edition, Experiences of Counselling in Action, Person-Centred Counselling Training and Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice.

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