Stephen Paul
Stephen Paul recently retired as Director of the Centre for Psychological Therapies at Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett University). He is a client-centred psychotherapist, and co-editor of The Therapeutic Relationship: Themes and Perspectives (with Sheila Haugh, 2008). His published work includes chapters on love, spirituality and therapy, as well as on coaching and group therapy. Stephen has worked in both adult and child and adolescent psychiatry. He opened one of the first independent counselling centres in the UK, in Bradford, in 1978, and has been head of a therapeutic school and director of the VSO programme in Bhutan. He now writes, practises therapy, supervision and coaching, and provides training.
View the author's own website : http://stephen-paul.co.uk
The Therapeutic Relationship: Themes and Perspectives
The importance of the therapeutic relationship is explored within key modalities of psychotherapy: person-centred, psychodynamic, existential, gestalt, transactional analysis, cognitive behavioural... (more)
Love and Therapy: In Relationship
Sigmund Freud noted the importance of love in the healing of the human psyche. So many of life's distresses have their origins in lack of love, disruption of love, or trauma. People naturally seek... (more)
An Introduction to the Therapeutic Relationship in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The therapeutic relationship is considered to be the most significant factor in achieving positive therapeutic change. As such, it is essential that trainee and practising therapists are able to... (more)