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Person-Centred Therapy in Focus

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Person Centred Therapy provides a much-needed exploration of the criticisms leveled against one of the most widespread forms of therapeutic practice. Characterized by its critics as theoretically "light", culturally biased and limited in application, until now the person-centred approach has had comparatively little written in its defence. Person Centred Therapy provides a rigorous and systematic response to the critics, drawing not only on the work of Carl Rogers, but of those central to more recent developments in theory and practice (including Goff Barrett-Lennard, Dave Meams, Jerold Bozarth, Germain Leitauer and Brian Thome). Examining the central tenets of the approach, each chapter sets out concisely the criticisms and then counters these with arguments from the person-centred perspective.
Paul Wilkins is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Human Communication, Manchester Metropolitan University. He publications include Personal and Professional Development for Counsellors (London, SAGE Publications), Psychodrama (London, SAGE Publications).
Introduction So Just What Is Person-Centred Therapy? `More than Just a Psychotherapy' An Important Social and Political Context or Unjustified Complacency? The Underlying Epistemology Outmoded Twentieth-Century Modernism? The Model of the Person An Insufficient Base? Self-Actualization A Culture-Bound, Naive and Optimistic View of Human Nature? The Core Conditions Necessary but Insufficient? `Non-Directivity' A Fiction and an Irresponsible Denial of Power? An Absent Psychopathology A Therapy for the Worried Well? Reflection A Simple Technique of Little Effect? The Issue of Boundaries Harmfully Sloppy Ethics?
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