Charts the development of person-centred therapy from its origins through onwards. This work traces the central concepts and key figures within the movement, set against the contemporary historical, social and political context. It presents ideas and information which is linked to an account of the unfolding theory, process and research.
Charts the development of person-centred therapy from its origins through onwards. This work traces the central concepts and key figures within the mo...
This book... is not a single meal in itself but a positive larder containing every imaginable staple food and condiment all exquisitely and thoroughly researched. The book took Goff Barrett-Lennard 20 years to write and it will stand as a reference text for person-centred specialists for longer than that... an essential reference text... and a pantry full of delicious surprises' - "Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling
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Probably the most important piece of work on the person-centred approach to have emerged in recent years... an essential source of reference...
This book... is not a single meal in itself but a positive larder containing every imaginable staple food and condiment all exquisitely and thoroughly...
This title offers a new perspective on the working and potential healing of relations between persons and between peoples, relevant to our desperate times.
This title offers a new perspective on the working and potential healing of relations between persons and between peoples, relevant to our desperate t...
This book describes in considerable depth and detail a series of workshops in therapeutic counselling in the early 1960s, for people working in social or mental health care who wished to expand their skillset and capabilities. The book is unique in its comprehensive retrospective viewpoint of the effect of these workshops: rather than merely adopting an objective stance by describing the processes, structures and impacts of intensive group work, the book invites us into the initial conversations in the room, and then follows the group members back into their lives, allowing us to see the...
This book describes in considerable depth and detail a series of workshops in therapeutic counselling in the early 1960s, for people working in soc...