Challenges to Counselling and Psychotherapy
Palgrave (Macmillan), 1996
208 pp
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- Is counselling being dehumanised by
commerce and the professions?
- Is it an 'impossible profession',
excessively-dependent on the virtue of counsellors?
- Is it, like nuclear fusion, warming
in theory but unreliable in practice?
- Is it a substitute for friendship?
- Is it a symptom of, or solution to,
consumerism and community decay?
- Is it a new product? or a new
label?
- Is every version valuable? Who will
decide and how?
- Are its boundaries and methods
adequately defined? · Are its foundations and philosophy sturdy and
secure?
- Is the word so over-used and abused
as to have become meaningless?
- Has it become a kind of all-purpose
'aerosol'?
Here is a clear, readable, radical
scrutiny of counselling. It dissects the four major schools of therapy as
indicators of a broader spiritual and cultural sickness. The many questions
raised require answers if the credibility and integrity of counselling are to
be retained.
The author's ultimate target is not counselling, but the abuse
of professionalisation and our current deity - consumerism. It should become
mandatory reading for counsellors, psychotherapists, trainers and
trainees.
Chapters
Here come the
carers
Counselling p.l.c.?
Who shall be our counsellor?
‘Client-centred’ approaches
Transpersonal approaches
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