Person-Centred Therapy in Focus

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-7619-6486-5
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Reihe: Counselling & Psychotherapy in Focus Series

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.

Paul Wilkins provides a rigorous and systematic response to the critics, drawing not only on the work of Carl Rogers, but also 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.

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. Chapters cover debates in relation to:
- the model of the person
- self-actualization
- the core conditions
- non-directivity
- resistance to psychopathology
- reflection, and
- boundary issues.

Person-Centred Therapy in Focus fulfills two important purposes: firstly to answer the criticisms of those who have attacked the person-centred approach and secondly to cultivate a greater critical awareness and understanding within the approach itself. As such it makes a significant contribution to the person-centred literature and provides an excellent resource for use in training.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilkins, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Humanistische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?

Über Autor(innen)

Wilkins, Paul
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).