Person-Centred Therapy : A Clinical Philosophy PDF

<P>The person-centred approach is one of the most popular, enduring and respected approaches to psychotherapy and counselling. <EM>Person-Centred Therapy</EM> returns to its original formulations to define it as radically different from other self-oriented therapies.</P> <P>Keith Tudor and Mike Worrall draw on a wealth of experience as practitioners, a deep knowledge of the approach and its history, and a broad and inclusive awareness of other approaches.

This significant contribution to the advancement of person-centred therapy:</P> <UL> <LI>Examines the roots of person-centred thinking in existential, phenomenological and organismic philosophy.</LI> <LI>Locates the approach in the context of other approaches to psychotherapy and counselling.</LI> <LI>Shows how recent research in areas such as neuroscience support the philosophical premises of person-centred therapy.</LI> <LI>Challenges person-centred therapists to examine their practice in the light of the history and philosophical principles of the approach.</LI></UL> <P><EM>Person-Centred Therapy</EM> offers new and exciting perspectives on the process and practice of therapy, and will encourage person-centred practitioners to think about their work in deeper and more sophisticated ways.</P> <P></P>