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Person-Centred Therapy in Focus
Person Centred Therapy in Focus provides a much-needed exploration of the criticisms levelled 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. The book 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 Mearns, Jerold Bozarth, Germain Leitauer and Brian Thorne). It traces the epistemological foundations of person-centred therapy and places the approach in its social and political context.
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Person-Centred Therapy in Focus
Person Centred Therapy in Focus provides a much-needed exploration of the criticisms levelled 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. The book 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 Mearns, Jerold Bozarth, Germain Leitauer and Brian Thorne). It traces the epistemological foundations of person-centred therapy and places the approach in its social and political context.
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Person-Centred Therapy in Focus

Person-Centred Therapy in Focus

by Paul Wilkins
Person-Centred Therapy in Focus

Person-Centred Therapy in Focus

by Paul Wilkins

Overview

Person Centred Therapy in Focus provides a much-needed exploration of the criticisms levelled 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. The book 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 Mearns, Jerold Bozarth, Germain Leitauer and Brian Thorne). It traces the epistemological foundations of person-centred therapy and places the approach in its social and political context.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761964872
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 02/28/2003
Series: Counselling & Psychotherapy in Focus Series
Pages: 148
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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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