Emerging Developments in Pre-Therapy: A Pre-Therapy Reader

Reviews and Endorsements

 A unique text, presenting the international growth in theorizing and applications resulting from Pre-Therapy
 For psychotherapists, counsellors and students working in the areas of learning disability, dementia, regression, chronic schizophrenia
and other conditions of lower level functioning
 Includes a history and review of Pre-Therapy theory for the uninitiated reader, followed by an overview of emergent developments that share a root in Pre-Therapy theory and practice

CONTENTS
PREFACE
Part I A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRE-THERAPY
Part II A REVIEW OF PRE-THERAPY
Part III EMERGENT DEVELOPMENTS
Practice
Chapter 1. Pre-Therapeutic Approaches for People with 'special needs'
Marlis Pörtner, Switzerland
Chapter 2. The Falling Man: Pre-Therapy applied to somatic hallucinating
Dion Van Werde, Belgium
Chapter 3. Pre-Therapy and Dementia Care
Penny Dodds, UK
Theory
Chapter 4. ECPI: Objective Evaluation for the Pre-Therapy Interview
Aldo Dinacci, Italy
Chapter 5. The Development of Intersubjectivity in Relation to Psychotherapy and Its Implication
for Pre-Therapy
Hans Peters, The Netherlands
Chapter 6. Pre-Therapy and the Pre-Expressive Self
Garry Prouty, USA
Part IV RELATED DEVELOPMENTS
Chapter 7. Metaphact Process: A new way of understanding schizophrenic thought disorder
Margaret Warner and Judith Trytten, USA
Chapter 8. The Therapy of Dissociation: Its phases and developments
Ton Coffeng, The Netherlands
Chapter 9. The Hallucination as the Unconscious Self
Garry Prouty, USA