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The Trouble with Psychotherapy: Counselling and Common Sense
Campbell Purton
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Description for The Trouble with Psychotherapy: Counselling and Common Sense
Paperback. This exciting book presents a radically new perspective in counselling and psychotherapy. Each chapter critically examines the major theories used in therapy and argues for their abandonment. The book goes on to invite readers to consider a common sense approach to working with their clients. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: MMJT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 366.
Current therapeutic practice is grounded in traditional theories of psychotherapy, such as the theories that underlie cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic and person-centred practice. But none of these approaches has been proven to be more effective than any other, leaving the therapist with an ethical and professional dilemma: how do you advocate and practise one theory with your clients, when a completely different theoretical approach is being successfully practised down the road? In this book Campbell Purton argues that psychotherapy and counselling theories fail to provide adequate justification for their practice. Part 1 highlights the weaknesses and dangers that underlie traditional counselling ... Read more
Current therapeutic practice is grounded in traditional theories of psychotherapy, such as the theories that underlie cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic and person-centred practice. But none of these approaches has been proven to be more effective than any other, leaving the therapist with an ethical and professional dilemma: how do you advocate and practise one theory with your clients, when a completely different theoretical approach is being successfully practised down the road? In this book Campbell Purton argues that psychotherapy and counselling theories fail to provide adequate justification for their practice. Part 1 highlights the weaknesses and dangers that underlie traditional counselling ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
365g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230241909
SKU
V9780230241909
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Ref
99-10
About Campbell Purton
Campbell Purton is Associate Tutor at the Centre for Counselling Studies, University of East Anglia. He is the author of Person-Centred Therapy: The Focusing-Oriented Approach (2004, Palgrave) and The Focusing-Oriented Primer (2007, PCCS Books).
Reviews for The Trouble with Psychotherapy: Counselling and Common Sense
'Campbell Purton has managed to explain, where others have failed, how it is that psychotherapy of many theoretical varieties can and actually does work. He develops an adequate understanding of psychotherapy, a last: an understanding that is not itself a theory.' - Dr. Rupert Read, Reader in Philosophy, School of Philosophy, Politics and Languages.