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Implausible Professions: Arguments for Pluralism and Autonomy in Psychotherapy and Counselling: Extended Second Edition

Editor : Richard House, Editor : Nick Totton

Table of Contents

Introduction to 2nd extended edition
Introduction to 1st edition

Part I - The Dynamics of Professionalisation
1. The politics of transference
John Heron

2. In the shadow of accreditation
David Wasdell

3. Too vulnerable to choose?
Richard Mowbray

4. Reflections on fear and love in accreditation
Robin Shohet

5. The dynamics of counselling research: a critical view
Richard House

6. 'Audit-mindedness' in counselling
Richard House

7. A case to answer
Richard Mowbray

Part II - Challenging the Basis of Professionalisation
1. The myth of therapist expertise
Katharine Mair

2. Training: a guarantee of competence?
Richard House

3. Inputs and outcomes: the medical model and professionalisation
Nick Totton

4. Challenging the core theoretical model
Colin Feltham

5. Not just a job: psychotherapy as a spiritual and political practice
Nick Totton

Part III - From Professionalisation to Pluralism
1. The accountable psychotherapist: standards, experts and poisoning the well
Brian Thorne

2. Counselling in the UK: jungle, garden or monoculture? Denis Postle
3. Psychotherapy and tragedy
David Smail

4. The making of a therapist and the corruption of the training market
Guy Gladstone

5. Uncovering the mirror: our evolving personal relationship with accreditation
Sue Hatfield & Cal Cannon

Part IV - Philosophy of Pluralism and Self/Peer Regulation
1. Pluralism and psychotherapy: what is a good training?
Andrew Samuels

2. The teaching of psychotherapy
Peter Lomas

3. Therapy in New Paradigm perspective: the phenomenon of Georg Groddeck
Richard House

4. A self-generating practitioner community
John Heron

Part V - Pluralism and Self-Regulation in Practive
1. Practitioner development through self-direction: The South West London College counselling courses
Val Blomfield

2. Developing self-determination: self and peer assessment and accreditation at the Institute for the Development of Human Potential
Michael Eales

3. The University of East Anglia Person-Centred Counselling training
Michael McMillan and Catherine Hayes

4. Assessment tension on a university-based counselling training course
Jill Davies

5. The Independent Practitioners Network: a new model of accountability
Nick Totton

6. Self and peer assessment: a personal story
Juliet Lamont & Annie Spencer

7. Stepping off the 'Game-Board': a new practitioner's view of accreditation
Marion Hall

8. Learning by mistake: client-practitioner conflict in a self-regulated network
Nick Totton

9. Participatory ethics in a self-generating practitioner community
Richard House

Conclusion to 1st edition
Conclusion to 2nd extended edition