In, Against and Beyond Therapy: Critical Essays Towards a Post-Professional Era

Explores some of the political, psychological and spiritual territory of working with the human condition. Collects together a series of devastating critiques examining the arguments around professionalisation and other deficiencies of the psy field.

* assembles 15 years of updated critical writings and provocative commentaries on the professionalisation process; the client voice; therapeutic education and training; and research

* discusses the deadening effect of institutional professionalisation; credentialism and careerism; audit-culture obsessions with evidence-based practice; and the psychopathologising of clients

* challenges the foundations of many of therapy's most taken-for-granted and self-serving assumptions

* central aim is to retrieve what is best in therapy