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This fascinating book presents the views of experienced therapists and counsellors on what is learnt about aspects of human nature from the many hours spent witnessing clients' stories.
Contributors write about their observations on working with people whose suffering is associated with social marginalization, family breakdown, the gay community, the AIDS epidemic, the Holocaust, and with people in groups, those who have experienced disaster and personal trauma, or depression, and those who have murdered. The book takes us to some of the depths of human suffering in order to illustrate the value and impact of therapy, and some of the failings and disillusionment of therapy. The material provides insights and hypotheses bearing on the human condition itself, and the contributors do not avoid disclosing some of their own struggles, doubts and suffering.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction - Colin Feltham
If I Am Only for Myself, Who Am I? From Trainee to Counsellor - Adrienne Baker
Psychotherapy and Community Care - David Brandon and Jane Akister
Therapy with Gay Men in the Era of AIDS - Todd Butler and Norman Leitman
The Lessons from Group Therapy - Ian Craib
In Search of Meaning and Sanity - Colin Feltham
Suffering, Evolution and Psychotherapy - Paul Gilbert
Counselling with Holocaust Survivors - Judith Hassan
Deeper Dungeons, Deeper Insights - Bob Johnson
Therapy as a Spiritual Process - William West
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Colin Feltham is series editor of Professional Skills for Counsellors and Short Introductions to the Therapy Professions series, co-editor of SAGE Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy and author of several SAGE texts, including What is Counselling?
Zusammenfassung
This work demonstrates the link between individual, clinical work and its wider social significance, and shows how society's problems inevitably find their way into the private "confessions" of counselling clients.
