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Seeking to promote 'mental health', psychotherapists and counsellors end up abusing their clients and themselves. This work argues that areas of the client-therapist relationship have been neglected, and explores ways in which therapists should engage with and listen to their clients in order to be of help.

Spinelli is one of the leading exponents existential therapy and one of its most brilliant practitioners. With Oliver Sacks-like skill he gives an account of some of the most unforgettable therapeutic encounters that he has experienced, explaining the core of his work and why the existential approach is key to examining the psychological condition.

Although the effects of learning difficulties and the effects of society's treatment of people with learning difficulties are lifelong, counselling and healing are possible. The author argues that even those people who have the most severe learning disabilities can benefit from counselling, and not simply from behaviour management or medication.

For students and practitioners of the person-centred approach to counselling. Investigates and explores issues of race and culture in the person-centred approach.

This 2nd edition once again throws into question taken-for-granted assumptions on which the professionalisation of psychotherapy and counselling are based. With a completely new editorial Introduction and Conclusion, this text is for those engaging with the politics of professionalisation for the first time, or wishing to refresh their thinking.

An addition to the resources available to superviors of various theoretical orientations, examining person-centred approaches to supervision.

In this book Jerold Bozarth presents a collection of twenty revised papers and new writings on person-centred therapy representing over 40 years' work as an innovator and theoretician.

Outlines the brief history of Pre-Therapy. This book enables the therapist to contact the patient's regressed levels through the concreteness of the Contact Reflections. It is suitable for students and practitioners of Pre-Therapy, and those who want to learn about its history and theory.

Explores alternatives to psychiatry developed by people with direct experience of extreme crisis and psychiatric treatment. Describes the origins, development, challenges and politics that inspired these international survivor-led and survivor-run grassroots approaches.

A practical guide to harm-reduction for anyone who has a supporting role with someone who hurts themselves, in a professional or informal context. A useful resource for people who self-injure. It explores why people self-injure, debunks myths, considers a social model approach to distress and offers practical strategies for responding meaningfully.

For students beginning to think about their future in the workplace, a school-based counselling post is likely to be a popular consideration. Kate McArthur explains how school-based counselling works, why it works, what it can offer the individual child, their family, their school and the wider community.

It is surprising that there is very little in the client-centred literature about therapist limits in counselling and psychotherapy with adult clients.This provides the rationale for this book as it attempts to redress that omission, offers a review of the existing literature and provides a starting point for discussion.

Edited collection of socio-cultural and critical reviews of the place of children and children's services in society.Contributions provide perspectives on constructing childhood, parent-hood, sexuality, ADHD, children and austerity, the family court system, parental blame and responsibility, learning disabilities, and poverty.

Do you still need your psychiatric diagnosis. If the authors of the diagnostic manuals are admitting that psychiatric diagnoses are not supported by evidence, then no one should be forced to accept them. This book is about giving health professionals, service-users and carers the information they need to decide for themselves.

A distinctive insider account of the shameful failings of the Western psychiatric system. Not only is the evidence for psychiatry's deficiencies comprehensively reviewed, but disturbing anecdotes are shared to illustrate how these failings are currently playing out within a psychiatric service near you.

Scientific research has helped us to understand how contexts of adversity, such as trauma, abuse, and experiences of racism can lead to psychosis, This book argues that if we are to prioritise the role of values and ethics in mental health care, we must engage actively with the contexts of patients' lives.

Queering Health will explore queer theory in the context of health and contemporary healthcare. From its original location as critique in the politics of sexuality, queer theory principles can usefully be extrapolated to inform contestations of other forms of normative and oppressive identity practices and the dynamics of exclusion.

This book presents accounts of the practice of the person-centred approach (PCA) with people suffering from a range of severe and enduring conditions by the world's top practioners. Comprehensively refuting the notion that person-centred therapy is suitable only for the 'worried well', it backs up contemporary practice with appropriate theory.

Great strides have been made in enriching our understanding of sexuality and it's variations of practice, identity, orientation and relationship forms across context and across culture. Here, the understandings that existential philosophy and psychotherapy can contribute are explicated by leading voices in the field.

A unique, innovative book providing support and practical solutions for the experience of hearing voices. It is in two parts, one part for voice-hearing young people, the other part for parents and adult carers. Pioneers Escher and Romme have over twenty-five years experience of working with voice-hearers.

Brian Thorne relays powerful insights into the passionate commitment of a bridge-builder between the worlds of counselling and psychotherapy and mystical theology.

The latest addition to the best-selling 'Primers in Counselling' series by one of the UK's foremost existential therapy authors.

A plethora of new material on critical debates in mental health. It brings together nurses, survivors, psychiatrists, psychologists and academics to critique the dominant bio-genetic model of madness used by psychiatry, and to promote alternative ways to understand, approach and nurture recovery from severe distress.

Distress can be thought of as 'psychopathology', a thing to be diagnosed, treated and cured. This mindset leads professionals to develop manualised forms of 'treatment' for specific 'disorders' which can leave clients feeling depersonalised and unheard. Authors explore human distress and consider ways in which therapy can create meaning and hope.

With over 100,000 copies sold, 'First Steps in Counselling' sets the standard for approachable, entry-level texts, mapping out the ground for those with little or no prior experience. The fourth edition brings this best-selling text up-to-date for today's introductory students.

A collection of mental health service user, carer and survivor narratives. Unusually, the narratives are unmediated hence there are no biomedical or psychotherapeutic commentaries to cpature, tame or sanitise the words of these 'the experts by experience'.

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.

Revised and updated edition of this body psychotherapy classic. Sets out to convey the essential features of Reichian Therapy in concrete and easily understandable language.

Offers a wide range of critical perspectives on the rise of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) from around the world and substantial responses to them. This book is suitable for psychotherapists, counsellors, students in training, and policy makers.

A guide to cognitive behavioural theory and practice. It presents comprehensive descriptions of key counselling approaches in the twenty-first century. It is suitable for students requiring a theory bridge between introductory, intermediate and diploma courses or focused input for comparative essays and integrative theory assignments.