Tales of Un-knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective
Book Details
- Publisher : PCCS Books
- Published : August 2006
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 176
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 24829
- ISBN 13 : 9781898059790
- ISBN 10 : 1898059799
Also by Ernesto Spinelli
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Presents the lives of eight individuals whose experiences illuminate a variety of dilemmas and anxieties that most of us encounter at different points of our lives. According to Spinelli (psychology, Regent's College), therapy at its most fundamental level involves the act of revealing, reassessing, and reconstructing the life stories that clients
Reviews and Endorsements
His modesty inclines me to believe that he is a therapist who can be trusted.
Anthony Storr, psychiatrist
To a certain extent every attempt to translate lived experience onto paper is doomed to failure, and it takes not only a skilled writer but also a skilful practitioner to elicit in the reader some of the sense of humanity, immediacy and reality of the original relationship while not retreating into sentimentality and narcissism … Spinelli’s book is difficult to put down and one is continually reminded with vivid cliarity of the personal and universal dilemas of the interlocking of normal and therapeutic life.
Martin Adams, existential psychotherapist and educator
Table of Contents
Prologue
1. Growing Old Disgracefully
2. Vile Bodies
3. The Royal Road
4. The Tale of the Therapist Who Discovered That He Was the Client
5. Lou and Simone: Truth or Happiness?
6. A Life Divided
7. Lifting the Veil
8. Her Last Breath
About the Author(s)
Ernesto Spinelli has gained an international reputation as a leading contemporary trainer and theorist of existential analysis as applied to psychology and psychotherapy as well as the related arenas of coaching and conflict mediation. He is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and an APECS accredited executive coach and coaching supervisor. In 1999, Ernesto was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Counselling Psychology. In 2000, he was given the BPS Division of Counselling Psychology Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession. And in 2019, Ernesto received the BPS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. His widely praised book, Demystifying Therapy is also published by PCCS. Currently, Ernesto maintains a private therapeutic and supervisory practice and provides specialist seminars and masterclasses around the world.
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Bayo Aina on 25/10/2007
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i guess Dr Spinellis idea of therapy fundamentally the act of revealing, reassessing, and reconstructing. This is consistent and has ressurrects Jungs 1961 idea of stages of therapeutic interaction includes confession, elucidation, education and transformation.
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