Counselling psychology, a rapidly expanding mental health discipline, is rooted in academic psychology and therefore has unique potential of develop and sustain a powerful model for the integration of research and practice. This is the argument of this pioneering book, which brings together contributions from many leading counselling psychologists to show how practitioners are already working along these lines, and how the model can be developed for the future.
The aim of the book is to bridge the divide between academic psychology and counselling practice and to encourage professionals to...

Part of the Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy series, this text chronicles the life, contributions and influence of Fritz Perls on the practice of counselling and psychotherapy.

This work brings together a wide range of perspectives on ethics and morality from formal research studies of practitioners' dilemmas to theoretical and philosophical explanations of the ethics of psychotherapy. Numerous practical and thought-provoking insights from 25 years of professional experience in these fields aim to make this a useful text for any student, client, trainer, supervisor or practitioner. There are also useful examples of thinking structures for the analysis, learning and understanding of ethics as well as a selection of ethical dilemmas for practice and training,...

This text is written with the sap of three disciplines - philosophy, psychology and physical science: the study of thinking, the study of psyche and the study of nature. It comes form a lifelong engagement with the meaning of life, death and transformation for the author and for others, which has included a dedication to the mystic traditions in several religions.

The third volume in the Clarkson on Psychotherapy series brings together a selection of Professor Clarkson's work. Most of the material has not previously been formally published and ranges from the beginnings of Gestalt through the importance - in life and therapy - of inborn constitutional temperamental types, to fundamental concerns in using philosophical discipline and Clarkson's demonstration of how the five-relational model can be applied to research.

A bystander is someone who does not become involved when someone else needs help. This book investigates the meaning of bystanding behaviour in ordinary life as well as in counselling psychology and psychotherapeutic practice, its supervision and organization. It is about helping and not helping, giving and getting help, and some ways of thinking and acting in our increasingly complex moral world. Bystanding is seen as a major way in which people disempower themselves and others. It works at the juncture of the individual and the collective, the person and the group, the citizen and the...

Clarkson on Psychotherapy, which has been reprinted three times, has become something of a classic. It drew together some of Petruska Clarkson's best writings on the practice of psychotherapy, and its processes and outcomes. Eight years later, Professor Clarkson has again selected some of her most innovative, thoughtful and seminal writings to form a second volume.

Simon Cavicchia has oriented Clarkson's seminal work of Gestalt Counselling in Action within a more contemporary context, adding voices of significant and divergent thinkers as counter-point and extensions of the author's work.
Michael Clemmens, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, USA

This popular and well written book which is now in its 4^th edition provides an accessible and thorough introduction to the Gestalt approach.
Danny Porter, Manchester Gestalt Centre

Now 24 years old with over 40,000 copies sold worldwide, Petruska...

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy: An Integrated Approach is the first advanced clinical textbook for many years, written for psychotherapists and counsellors who use the theory and techniques of Transactional Analysis in their practice or who are interested in expanding their repertoire. Clarkson provides a comprehensive guide to goal-setting and clinical planning for every stage of treatment. Not only a practical textbook relevant to modern developments in supervision, but one which makes a new and original contribution to ways of thinking about transference and...