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Abstract
Around one in four clients of counselling and therapy either deteriorate in treatment or show no signs of recovery. Why does therapy fail this significant proportion of vulnerable people and what can be done about it? This ground-breaking volume assembles the first ever collection of client critiques of therapy as a way of kick-starting an urgently needed debate. Including contributions from a range of internationally respected therapists, the book identifies areas of concern and seeks to provide constructive solutions for the future.
Nominated for the Mind Book of the Year Award 2006
YVONNE BATES is a Freelance Counsellor working within the Alexander Group. Previous works include Ethically Challenged Professions: Enabling Innovation and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Counselling (co-edited with Richard House, 2003). She is Managing Editor of Ipnosis - an independent journal for practitioners.
'Anyone involved with the training of therapists needs to read this book.' - John Rowan, BACPNL Magazine
'Shouldn't I be feeling better by now? is a timely and important publication...thought provoking and inspirational, and should trigger an overdue debate around the question: What happens when the therapy doesn't work? Pat Coleman, Health Matters
'I would thoroughly recommend this book to others who are interested in therapy...I found reading it prompted me to reflect on issues that I had not really thought about before, and led me to question some of my own beliefs about therapy.' - Robert Farrelly, Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy
Around one in four clients of counselling and therapy either deteriorate in treatment or show no signs of recovery. Why does therapy fail this significant proportion of vulnerable people and what can be done about it? This ground-breaking volume assembles the first ever collection of client critiques of therapy as a way of kick-starting an urgently needed debate. Including contributions from a range of internationally respected therapists, the book identifies areas of concern and seeks to provide constructive solutions for the future.
Nominated for the Mind Book of the Year Award 2006
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Table of Contents | v | ||
| Acknowledgements and Dedication | vii | ||
| Preface | viii | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Part I: Client Stories | 5 | ||
| 1 Love in an Estate of Bondage | 7 | ||
| 2 A Silent Self | 20 | ||
| 3 Twenty Years Ago | 32 | ||
| 4 An Adventure in Hypnotherapy | 39 | ||
| 5 Her Mistake Cost Me Dearly: Emotional Abuse in Psychotherapy | 53 | ||
| 6 The Client Says Not | 63 | ||
| Part II: Practice Issues | 77 | ||
| 7 A Digest of Anne France's Consuming Psychotherapy | 79 | ||
| 8 Untwining the Transference | 90 | ||
| 9 Why Practise Informed Consent? One Client's Perspective | 98 | ||
| 10 Alice's Adventures in Psychoanalysis | 106 | ||
| 11 Anti-therapy | 114 | ||
| 12 Anna Sands on Language, Reality and Amorality | 123 | ||
| 13 Summary of the Issues | 136 | ||
| Part III: Working Towards Solutions | 145 | ||
| 14 Forum of Voices: Rising to the Challenge | 147 | ||
| 15 A Dialogue Between a Client and a Psychotherapist | 166 | ||
| 16 Conclusion: Welcoming the Client-Voice Movement | 184 | ||
| Afterword | 189 | ||
| Appendix: Research into the Efficacy of Counselling and Psychotherapy and its Relevance to Subjective Reports | 193 | ||
| Suggested Further Reading | 200 | ||
| Index | 205 | ||
| A | 205 | ||
| B | 205 | ||
| C | 205 | ||
| D | 206 | ||
| E | 206 | ||
| F | 206 | ||
| G | 207 | ||
| H | 207 | ||
| I | 207 | ||
| J | 207 | ||
| K | 207 | ||
| L | 207 | ||
| M | 208 | ||
| N | 208 | ||
| O | 208 | ||
| P | 208 | ||
| Q | 208 | ||
| R | 209 | ||
| S | 209 | ||
| T | 210 | ||
| U | 210 | ||
| V | 210 | ||
| W | 210 | ||
| Y | 210 | ||
| Z | 210 |