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Abstract
This unique and important book breaks new ground in the theory and practice of person-centred psychotherapy by focusing on the issue of process.
Process belongs to both client and counsellor. Worsley conceptualises process in relation to the core principles of the person-centred approach but also to the humanistic and phenomenological roots of person-centred therapy. Combining academic rigour with the wisdom of an experienced clinical practitioner, he opens up a more inclusive and integrative way of being with clients that nonetheless chimes with classical person-centred principles.
The book features:
• Activities and vivid case studies to illustrate and expand on the theoretical points being developed, allowing the reader to see easily how these might apply to practice.
• Engagement with theoretical approaches such as transactional analysis and Gestalt, as well as discussion of philosophy, spirituality and psychopathology.
• New discussion of the processes involved in mental illness, drawing on the work of Prouty and Warner to understand the client's world of experiencing.
• New material on the plural self and configurations of the self.
This is a book aimed principally at university students enrolled on courses in person-centred, humanistic, existential and integrative counselling and psychotherapy. It will also appeal to experienced practitioners wanting to refresh and deepen their understanding.
RICHARD WORSLEY is a person-centred therapist, supervisor and trainer at the University of Warwick, UK. Formerly Director of the Diploma in Humanistic Counselling at Tile Hill College, Coventry, he also has long experience working as an Anglican Priest. He is co-editor with Stephen Joseph of Person-Centred Psychopathology: A Positive Psychology of Mental Health.
Breathtakingly wide-ranging' – Nick Baker, The Tribes of the Person-Centred Nation
'This book helps to fill out the growing field of the mainstream person-centred approach; it is a reader-friendly text that genuinely adds to the enquiry base of counsellors and therapists and deserves to find its way onto the reading lists of all integrative courses." - Colin Feltham, Therapy Today
RICHARD WORSLEY is a person-centred therapist, supervisor and trainer. He was Director of the Diploma in Humanistic Counselling at Tile Hill College, Coventry, UK, as well as an Anglican Priest with long experience of parish life and pastoral care. He is co-author of Person-Centred Psychopathology: A Positive Psychology of Mental Health and Person-Centred Practice: Case Studies in Positive Psychology.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| Preface | xi | ||
| Acknowledgements | xii | ||
| Who Is This Book For? | xiii | ||
| 1 Process and Listening | 1 | ||
| A Case Study in Process | 1 | ||
| The Bedrock of Person-Centred Therapy | 7 | ||
| The Phenomenological Stance | 8 | ||
| Process Work in Action | 9 | ||
| Process and Explanation | 11 | ||
| Further Reading | 12 | ||
| Part I: Addressing Process Work | 13 | ||
| 2 What is Process in Person-Centred Therapy? | 15 | ||
| Reflection | 16 | ||
| What is Process Work? | 18 | ||
| Two Aspects of Process – The Work of David Rennie | 19 | ||
| Barbara Temaner Brodley and Laura North Rice | 21 | ||
| Focusing | 22 | ||
| The Person-Centred Rigidity | 23 | ||
| The Chicago 2000 Position Statement | 24 | ||
| An Initial Position | 26 | ||
| Moving to Process Work | 28 | ||
| Further Reading | 28 | ||
| 3 The Client in Process | 30 | ||
| Two Practice Observations | 30 | ||
| Process Work and the Client's Frame of Reference | 35 | ||
| Process Work and the Six Conditions of Therapy | 36 | ||
| Spontaneity, Reflexivity and the Actualizing Tendency | 38 | ||
| Key Themes | 39 | ||
| 'A Process Conception of Psychotherapy' | 43 | ||
| Further Reading | 45 | ||
| Part II: Phenomenological Perspectives | 47 | ||
| 4 A Phenomenological Approach to Therapy | 49 | ||
| Frame of Reference as a Phenomenological Concept | 53 | ||
| Phenomenology and Practice | 54 | ||
| The ‘What’ and ‘How’ of Experiencing | 58 | ||
| Anger | 59 | ||
| Process Work: Theory and Practice | 63 | ||
| Phenomenology and Integration | 65 | ||
| Into Practice | 67 | ||
| Further Reading | 68 | ||
| 5 Constructing the Self: Narrative and Metaphor in Therapy | 70 | ||
| A Letter to Alistair | 70 | ||
| Narrative as Symbolization | 76 | ||
| Into Practice – 1 | 78 | ||
| The Multiple Self | 80 | ||
| Configurations Revisited – Narrative and Metaphor | 83 | ||
| Into Practice – 2 | 85 | ||
| Further Reading | 88 | ||
| 6 Conditions of Worth in Everyday Life: A Person-Centred Use of Transactional Analysis Theory | 89 | ||
| Recognizing a Dilemma | 94 | ||
| Conditions of Worth in Everyday Life | 95 | ||
| Ego-state Theory | 97 | ||
| Christopher's Ego-states | 101 | ||
| Being Person-Centred? | 103 | ||
| Into Practice | 104 | ||
| Further Reading | 104 | ||
| 7 Mirrors of Our Being: A Person-Centred Use of Gestalt Theory | 106 | ||
| Awareness as an Aspect of the Client's Frame of Reference | 106 | ||
| Expressing Our Organismic Need: A Gestalt Perspective | 109 | ||
| Awareness and Metacommunication | 110 | ||
| Awareness and its Edge: A Study in Empathy with Process | 113 | ||
| Awareness and Being Fully Functioning | 114 | ||
| The Cycle of Experience | 116 | ||
| Into Practice | 118 | ||
| Bridging | 119 | ||
| Awareness and its Implications for Practice | 121 | ||
| Further Reading | 122 | ||
| 8 Freeing the Therapist: A Phenomenological Reading of Carl Rogers | 123 | ||
| Experiencing Looking | 124 | ||
| Phenomenological Reading | 125 | ||
| Two Ways of Looking at Rogers | 127 | ||
| The Person-Centred Theory Paradox and Openness to the Client's Process | 129 | ||
| Conceptualizing and Operationalizing | 131 | ||
| Further Reading | 133 | ||
| Part III: Existential Perspectives | 135 | ||
| 9 Relating and Existing: Martin Buber's I–Thou Construct for Person-Centred Therapy | 137 | ||
| From Phenomenology to Existentialism | 138 | ||
| What is Existentialism? | 139 | ||
| Deeper Empathy | 143 | ||
| A View of Hannah – Martin Buber | 143 | ||
| A Work of Art | 146 | ||
| Saying ‘Thou’ | 148 | ||
| The Internalized Other | 149 | ||
| Into Practice | 150 | ||
| Further Reading | 153 | ||
| 10 The Existential Dimension: An Ignored Resource of Person-Centred Therapy | 155 | ||
| The Existential Self | 155 | ||
| Carl Rogers on the Good Life | 158 | ||
| Life Commitments | 160 | ||
| Freedom and Choice | 161 | ||
| Responsibility, Anxiety and Guilt | 163 | ||
| Into Practice | 165 | ||
| Beyond the Existential | 168 | ||
| Further Reading | 173 | ||
| 11 The Spirituality of Counselling: Phenomenology, Existentialism and Beyond | 174 | ||
| Making Links | 175 | ||
| Phenomenology as Public Language | 176 | ||
| Phenomenology as Spiritual | 177 | ||
| Into Practice | 178 | ||
| Meeting Others | 179 | ||
| What Stops Us Meeting? | 179 | ||
| Transcendence and Metaphor | 181 | ||
| Into Practice – Spiritual Wisdom | 182 | ||
| But Does the Spiritual Really Matter? | 184 | ||
| Conclusion | 185 | ||
| Further Reading | 186 | ||
| Part IV: Moving into Process Work | 187 | ||
| 12 Process in High Levels of Distress: Insights for Everyday Work | 189 | ||
| Precursors to Modern, Person-Centred Psychopathology | 190 | ||
| Critical Psychology and Psychiatry | 194 | ||
| Contact | 196 | ||
| Theory and Practice – Pre-therapy | 198 | ||
| Theory and Practice – Metaphact and Metacause | 200 | ||
| Further Reading | 206 | ||
| 13 A Process Paradigm and Hilary: A Case Study of One Moment of Process Work | 208 | ||
| Clients and Models: The Specificity Myth | 208 | ||
| Paradigms | 209 | ||
| Introducing the Paradigm | 210 | ||
| The Paradigm | 211 | ||
| The Key Contribution of the Paradigm | 219 | ||
| Into Practice | 220 | ||
| The Client's Preferred Way of Working – an Excursus | 222 | ||
| Working with Hilary – the Paradigm-Moment | 223 | ||
| Process Work in Action | 226 | ||
| Further Reading | 227 | ||
| 14 Process Work in Practice | 228 | ||
| Level One – The Arguments | 230 | ||
| Level Two – Process: Imaging and Imagination | 231 | ||
| Images and Paradigms | 234 | ||
| Into Practice | 234 | ||
| Level Three – Process and Spiritual Awareness | 235 | ||
| Future Work | 237 | ||
| Conclusion | 238 | ||
| Bibliography | 240 | ||
| Index | 252 | ||
| A | 252 | ||
| B | 252 | ||
| C | 252 | ||
| D | 253 | ||
| E | 253 | ||
| F | 253 | ||
| G | 253 | ||
| H | 254 | ||
| I | 254 | ||
| J | 254 | ||
| K | 254 | ||
| L | 254 | ||
| M | 254 | ||
| N | 254 | ||
| O | 254 | ||
| P | 255 | ||
| R | 255 | ||
| S | 255 | ||
| T | 256 | ||
| U | 256 | ||
| V | 256 | ||
| W | 256 | ||
| Y | 256 | ||
| Z | 256 |