Politicizing the Person-centred Approach: An Agenda for Social Change

Politicizing the Person-centred Approach: An Agenda for Social Change

by Mick Cooper (Editor), Gillian Proctor (Editor), Contributors (Author), Beryl Malcolm (Editor), Mick Cooper (Editor), Gillian Proctor (Editor), Pete Sanders (Editor)

Synopsis

This timely book explores the interface between the Person-Centred Approach and radical political theory and activity. Specifically, it explores the contribution that a critical analysis of social and political factors can make to the practice of person-centred therapy, and to examine the contribution that person-centred theory and practice can make to the wider sphere of socio-political theory and activity. An international collection of chapters offers critical analysis of the PCA and difference and diversity; class; culture and racism; sexuality; power and feminism. Other contributions present a range of work involving social change as a necessary and sufficient condition for therapeutic personality growth; emotional literacy; sociotherapy; work with refugees and asylum seekers; peace groups; ecopolitics and spirituality. Politicising the Person-Centred Approach is primarily aimed at practitioners and, to some extent, students, of the person-centred approach who have an interest in political issues and concerns, but will also be of interest to service users, practitioners and theorists in the field of critical psychiatry and critical psychology, who may be interested in developing the theoretical foundations of their work and expanding their theoretical and practical horizons.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: PCCS Books
Published: 16 May 2006

ISBN 10: 1898059721
ISBN 13: 9781898059721

Media Reviews
Doing is a way of being, and 'Policizing the Person-Centred Approach' is not only a call to leave the ivory tower and contextualize the consulting room, it is an important step in helping practitioners to do so. It is a scholarly, fascinating, accessible and most stimulating call to social action'. Peter F Schmid, Person-centred therapist, co-director of the Austrian Institute for Person-Centred Studies.
Author Bio
Dr. Gillian Proctor is an independent Clinical psychologist and person-centred psychotherapist, offering individual therapy and supervision. She is an assistant professor in counselling at the University of Nottingham, providing Counselling for Depression courses to NHS counsellors. She is also an associate lecturer at Huddersfield university and a research supervisor at several other institutions. She has a particular interest in ethics, politics and power and the importance for counselling of the insights from sociology and philosophy to broaden and deepen our understandings of relationships and ethics. Her latest book is 'Values and ethics in counselling and psychotherapy' (2013) published by Sage.