Colin Feltham is Emeritus Professor of Critical Counselling Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP Senior Registered Practitioner and former co-editor of the British Journal for Guidance and Counselling.
This innovative new textbook examines the critical debates around key topics in counselling and psychotherapy. In nine sections - including Everyday Counselling Practice, Training and Curriculum... (more)
Depressive Realism argues that people with mild-to-moderate depression have a more accurate perception of reality than non-depressives. Depressive Realism is a worldview of human existence that is... (more)
Psychoanalytic Knowledge presents cutting edge thinking on some fundamental ideas in psychoanalysis by important international scholars in the field of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. It explores... (more)
This book provides concise definitions of more than 1000 terms used in the field of counselling. As well as covering theory and practice, the book also includes client concerns and problems which may... (more)
Supervision is a professional and ethical necessity for all counsellors, providing them with consultative and supportive aid while protecting clients from potential abuse - yet relatively little has... (more)
This volume contains 30 useful hints and reminders to help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve key areas of their work. The book encourages counsellors to focus on areas that... (more)
Discusses whether mainstream therapeutic orientations can co-exist in harmony. If there is friction between them, is this minor or major? Is 'integrationism' a myth? Focussing on differences - rather... (more)
For those seeking an honest appraisal of the activity and profession of counselling, the author of this rigorous examination of the talking therapies asks such key questions as: How has counselling... (more)
Issues in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, counselling, clinical psychology and related therapies are not necessarily clear-cut. This work looks at theoretical, clinical, professional and social issues... (more)
This balanced, informative, and clear book puts the therapeutic - or in this case, counselling - relationship into context, and will be of great interest and value to everyone training or practising... (more)
This work demonstrates the link between individual, clinical work and its wider social significance, and shows how society's problems inevitably find their way into the private "confessions" of... (more)
This book evaluates supervisory structures and practices in the light of recent research and experiences. It provides counsellors and psychotherapists with a considered examination of the supervision... (more)
`There is much here to stir up the reluctant practitioner to explain themselves and their practice more ably and, better still, to promote and defend our profession' - The Revd John Eatock,... (more)
In this revolutionary text, the author explains "anthropathology" which, in part, is the invisible milieu we are born into, leading to a society created by human beings that is, in the author's view,... (more)