RONALD F.LEVANT is Clinical Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Boston University.JOHN M.SHLIEN is Professor at Harvard University, is well known for his contributions to the development of the client-centered approach in the late 1950's and 1960's.

• Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction/John M. Shlien and Ronald F. Levant Part I: Developments in Theory and Research Section A: The Facilitative Conditions The Empirical Status of Rogers's Hypotheses of the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Effective Psychotherapy/Neill Watson Unconditional Positive Regard; A Controversial Basic Attitude in Client-Centered Therapy/Germain Lietaer Beyond Reflection; Emergent Modes of Empathy/Jerold D. Bozarth Section B: Experiencing/Focusing The Client's Client; The Edge of Awareness/Eugene T. Gendlin Section C: The Self-Concept, the Fully Functioning Person, and Client-Centered Therapy Viewed in Relationship to Cognitive and Psychoanalytic Theories Self-Concept and Identity; Overlapping Portions of a Cognitive Structure of Self/Desmond S. Cartwright and Mary Jane Graham The Fully Functioning Person; Theory and Research/Julius Seeman A Counter-Theory of Transference/John M. Shlien Part II: Developments in Practice Section A: Individual Psychotherapy Client Tasks in Client-Centered Therapy/Laura N. Rice Person-Centered Gestalt; Toward a Holistic Synthesis/Maureen Miller O'Hara Section B: Family Therapy and Enhancement The World of Family Relationships; A Person-Centered Systems View/Godfrey T. Barrett-Lennard From Person to System; Two Perspectives/Ronald F. Levant Contributions of Client-Centered Therapy to Filial, Marital, and Family Relationship Enhancement Therapies/Bernard G. Guerney, Jr. Section C: Clinical Supervision Carl Rogers's Client-Centered Approach to Supervision/Harold Hackney and Rodney K. Goodyear Section D: Large Groups Communities for Learning; A Person-Centered Approach/John Keith Wood Part III: Wider Applications of the Person-Centered Approach Person-Centered Administration in Higher Education/William R. Rogers The Personal Meaning of Illness; Client-Centered Dimensions of Medicine and Health Care/David Bernard Rogers's Impact on Pastoral Counseling and Contemporary Religious Reflection/Robert C. Fuller A Person-Centered Approach to Research/David Mearns and John McLeod Secrets and the Psychology of Secrecy; Some Preliminary Thoughts/John M. Shlien Part IV: Another Necessary Condition Are We Doomed to Nuclear Planetary Suicide?/Carl R. Rogers and David Ryback References Index