The Trouble with Psychotherapy: Counselling and Common Sense

With regulation imminent, counsellors need to demystify their work to the outside world. This ground-breaking text focuses on experiential engagement as a rich source of unity for very different views of therapy. It brings together the latest theory and research to argue for experiential depth as the key catalyst for therapeutic change.

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. The Central Factors in Effective Psychotherapy 3. Experiential Engagement 4. Focusing and Experiential Depth 5. Experiencing and Cognition 6. Experiencing and the Unconscious 7. Relational Depth and the Therapeutic Relationship 8. Plumbing the Depths of the Self 9. Neurophysiological 'Depth' 10. Integration or Pluralism?