Pre-Therapy: Reaching Contact-Impaired Clients
Book Details
- Publisher : PCCS Books
- Published : November 2002
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 192
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 89974
- ISBN 13 : 9781898059349
- ISBN 10 : 1898059349
Also by Garry Prouty
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Developed by Garry Prouty and his associates over 30 years, Pre-Therapy is a method for anyone wanting to work with people whose ability to establish and maintain psychological contact is impaired temporarily or permanently, by illness or injury, whether of organic or psychological origin.
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Van Werde has developed an understanding of working with what he calls the 'grey area' where clients may dip in and out of psychosis. As a counsellor working in the field of mental health, I found this thought provoking and helpful. Pre-Therapy offers me a way of supporting someone at the edge of therapeutic viability and of bringing them back into therapeutic contact, in a way that is fully consistent with person centred therapy. It is deeply respectful of the client and an effective way of making therapy available to those who might otherwise be excluded.
Margaret Brown, Counselling Manager and practitioner, East Suffolk Mind
Table of Contents
Part I - Garry Prouty: The Foundations of Pre-Therapy
1. Formative experiences
2. Pre-Therapy and Existential Phenomenology
3. The Theory of Pre-Therapy
4. The Practice of Pre-Therapy
5. Pre-symbolic Theory
6. Newer Applications of Pre-Therapy
7. Further Thoughts
Part II - Dion Van Werde: Pre-Therapy applied on a psychiatric ward
8. Introduction
9. Mission Statements
10. A Contact Milieu
11. Afterthoughts
Part III - Marlis Pörtner: Further Evolutions of Pre-Therapy in Europe
12. The Pre-Therapy Project of Sint-Amandus
13. Further Evolutions of Pre-Therapy
14. Concluding Thoughts
About the Author(s)
Garry Prouty, trained by Eugene Gendlin, is the founder of Pre-Therapy. He has lectured in Europe and North America in clinics, hospitals and training organisations for the past seventeen years. He has served as editorial consultant on the boards of Psychotherapy, Theory, Research and Practice; The International Journal of Mental Imagery and Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies.
Marlis Pörtner, worked in theatre and as an editor and translator, before becoming a psychotherapist. After the 'family years' she studied psychology and has worked for 20 years as a psychotherapist in her own practice. She has always had in her client caseload some people with special needs. She also works as a consultant and supervisor for several social services and is often invited by communities and homes to do workshops for the staff to introduce the concept of 'Trust and Understanding'. She has published a number of books, originally in German, that have been translated into several languages, and numerous articles for professional journals. She was married for more than 20 years, has a daughter and a son, both adult, and two grandsons.
Dion Van Werde is a psychologist with a postgraduate specialisation in Client-Centered/Experiential Psychotherapy (K. U. Leuven). He is Pre-Therapy Staff Fellow of the Chicago Counseling and Psychotherapy Center, USA. He is coordinator of the Pre-Therapy International Network, based at Psychiatrisch Ziekenhuis, St Camillus, Gent, Belgium, where he uses Pre-Therapy as a ward model in residential care for people diagnosed as psychotic. He also gives presentations and workshops on Pre-Therapy in different formats and languages.
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