Person-Centred Therapy: A Clinical Philosophy
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2006
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 320
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 89612
- ISBN 13 : 9781583911242
- ISBN 10 : 1583911243
Reviews and Endorsements
'Person-Centred Therapy' offers new and exciting perspectives on the process and practice of therapy, and will encourage person-centred practitioners to think about their work in deeper and more sophisticated ways.
* Examines the roots of person-centred thinking in existential, phenomenological and organismic philosophy.
* Locates the approach in the context of other approaches to psychotherapy and counselling.
* Shows how recent research in areas such as neuroscience support the philosophical premises of person-centred therapy.
* Challenges person-centred therapists to examine their practice in the light of the history and philosophical principles of the approach.
Contents:
Series Preface. Introduction. Philosophy. Organism. Tendencies. Self. Person. Alienation. Conditions. Process. Environment.
Author Biography:
Keith Tudor is a Director of Temenos and its Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Person-Centred Psychotherapy & Counselling. He is also an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Health, Liverpool John Moores University.
Mike Worrall is a person-centred counsellor and supervisor in independent practice in Oxford.