Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling.

|My congratulations to Colin Feltham for assembling a set of contentious issues and lively authors which together made me forget my surroundings' - Person-Centred Practice. |Editor Colin Feltham's choice of topics shows an astute, on-the-ground awareness of the issues that dog the industry...

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Main Author: Feltham, Colin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Sage Publications, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; 1
  • Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling; Part I: Theoretical Issues; 2
  • Does the Unconscious Mind Really Exist?; 3
  • On the Existence of the Unconscious; 4
  • Primal Therapies
  • Stillborn Theories; 5
  • The Trauma of Birth; 6
  • False Memories
  • a Peripheral Issue?; 7
  • Believing Patients; Part II: Clinical Issues; 8
  • The Ineffectiveness of Psychotherapy; 9
  • It Has Been Amply Demonstrated that Psychotherapy is Effective; 10
  • The Main Change Agent in Effective Psychotherapy is Specific Technique and Skill.
  • 11
  • The Main Change Agent in Psychotherapy is the Relationship Between Therapist and Client12
  • Deconstructing Diagnosis: Psychopathological Practice; 13
  • Psychopathology is a Reality and Psychodiagnosis is a Necessity; 14
  • The Limitations of Boundaries; 15
  • Maintaining Boundaries in Psychotherapy: a View from Evolutionary Psychoanalysis; Part III: Professional Issues; 16
  • Personal Therapy as a Training Requirement: the Lack of Supporting Evidence; 17
  • In Def.