Conscious and Unconscious / Edition 1

by Edwards

Overview

All forms of psychotherapy deal with the limitations of our awareness. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which these discourses employ a rich variety of concepts to address the limits of our everyday consciousness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335209491
Publisher:	Open University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2003
Series:	Core Concepts in Therapy S
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Michael Jacobs is Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University, having worked for many years at Leicester University. He is is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a psychodynamic psychotherapist registered with UKCP. His publications on psychodynamic counselling and therapy are used as key texts on many training courses.

David Edwards has taught at Rhodes University in South Africa since 1972 and has a longstanding interest in humanistic and transpersonal psychotherapy. He offers postgraduate courses in transpersonal psychology and the expressive arts in therapy. He is also a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and currently teaches and supervises trainee clinical psychologists in cognitive therapy and group therapy, and supervises research on clinical applications of cognitive therapy.

Table of Contents

Series editor's preface

Preface and acknowledgements

Constructing and deconstructing the unconscious

Conscious and unconscious in historical perspective

Freud, Adler and Jung: contrasting perspectives on the psychology of the unconscious

The development of alternative discourses: Harry Stack Sullivan, Fritz Perls and Medard Boss

Evolving psychoanalytic discourses of the unconscious

Cognitive therapy, cognitive science and the cognitive unconscious

Invisible worlds, unconscious fields and the non-egoic core: evolving discourses of the transpersonal unconscious

Conscious and unconscious: the next hundred years

References

Index.