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The Reality Game (2nd edition)
John Rowan
A guide to humanistic counselling and psychotherapy
This is a handbook for people who are, or who want to be, counsellors
or psychotherapists. It covers both theory and practice. Since the first
edition every chapter has been thoroughly revised, and there is one new
chapter, on ethics. It takes a humanistic stance. There are few books
for the general humanistic practitioner, working on a one-to-one basis.
In writing this book I have been very conscious of the needs of students,
and the kinds of questions which they raise. In this I have been helped
considerably by the students in my supervision groups at the Institute
of Psychotherapy and Social Studies, at the Serpent Institute and at the
Minster Centre, who have raised all the awkward issues and tricky problems
which I have tried to tackle here. Some people misunderstand the word
'humanistic' by thinking it means that we are soft and mushy and want
to spread peace and love all the time; but we are not in the peace and
love business, we are in the reality business. Or better still, since
there is always some element of play in good therapy, the reality game.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Humanistic psychotherapy, counselling and growth Origins; The
humanistic appproach; the transpersonal approach; the field
Chapter 2: Assessment The problem; labelling; alternative models
Chapter 3: The initial interview First phone call; the initial interview;
rapport; going wrong; listening; structure; the therapist is not a rescuer;
frequency and length of sessions; fees; boundaries
Chapter 4: The opening sessions Basic moves; awareness; empathy; resonance;
genuineness; warmth; depth and surface
Chapter 5: Aims Background contrasts; the humanistic approach; defences;
the real self; some questions answered
Chapter 6: Ways and means Sensing; feeling; thinking; intuiting; borderlines
Chapter 7: Transference Here and now; interpretation; responsibility;
countertransference; projective identification
Chapter 8: Resistance Real self and Id; types of resistance; therapist
response
Chapter 9: The process of development Primal integration; Mahrer's humanistic
psychodynamics; Wilber's transpersonal theory; conclusion
Chapter 10: Listening with the fourth ear Social awareness; co-counselling;
the patripsych; implications; some false trails
Chapter 11: Research A piece of history; existing research; a new approach;
new paradigm research
Chapter 12: Supervision Supervisor styles; the media of supervision; humanistic
education
Chapter 13: Ethics Private practice; accreditation; inward and outward;
criticisms; boundaries; telling the client
Appendix A: List of criteria for doing good therapy
Appendix B: List of useful addresses
Bibliography
Subject index
Name index
Routledge 1998 ISBN 0-415-16433-8 hbk 0-415-16434-6 pbk
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