Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy

Manu Bazzano is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. He has studied eastern contemplative practices since 1980. He is the author and editor of many books, including Zen and Therapy, After Mindfulness and Nietzsche and Psychotherapy. A visiting lecturer at the University of Roehampton, London, he facilitates workshops and seminars internationally. He is editor of Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and associate editor of Self & Society.

'Heretical, subversive, a celebration of precarious uncertainty, and yet radically personal, this book will inspire trainees and new therapists, of any tradition, to save our profession. Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy expands the scope of Rogers' approach, updating and redeeming in equal measure. The book itself is an instance of its message, diverse, unexpected, gritty and well-argued. If you want to remain comfortable, offering manualised "treatments" to patients to retire and die peacefully, then avoid this book.'Greg Madison, PhD, non-affiliated international lecturer, writer, Founder of London Focusing Institute'This book represents a remarkable contribution in the contemporary Person-centred Therapy world. Bringing together both a critique and a call for a reinvention of theory and practice, it takes up Rogers’ original proposal and brings it forward, broadening, updating and consolidating this perspective for our times. This results in a fruitful and creative renewal of the PCT instigated by authors and practitioners from various parts of the world. Carl Rogers would certainly be proud of this book.'Virginia Moreira, APHETO, Laboratory of Psychopathology and Humanist Phenomenological Psychotherapy, University of Fortaleza, Brazil'This is a welcome and timely book for anyone interested in person-centred psychotherapeutic work. It takes a completely fresh look at person-centred and experiential therapies by offering critical and innovative approaches to theory and practice, while also sustaining relevance to contemporary therapeutic needs. Particularly distinctive strengths are the transcultural perspectives; the philosophical breadth, which is inclusive of spirituality and political awareness; and the practical applications of theory to practice.'Jean O’Callaghan, Convener of the MA Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy training at the University of Roehampton, London, UK.

• Introduction Manu BazzanoTribute to Fedor E. Vasilyuk Tatiana Karyagina and Fedor ShankovPart I Some kinds of love: person-centred therapy and the relational dimensionChapter 1 Therapy as an accident waiting to happen Julie WebbChapter 2 The psychotherapeutic encounter as a political act of micro-multitude Claudio RudChapter 3 Beauty and the Cyborg Manu BazzanoChapter 4 Walking backwards towards the future: reclaiming the radical roots – and future – of person-centred therapy Keith TutorChapter 5 Ethics and the person-centered approach: a dialogue with radical alterity Emanuel Meireles Vieira and Francisco Pablo Huascar Aragão PinheiroPart II The politics of experienceChapter 6 Dialectics of person and experiencing Tatiana Karyagina and Fedor E. VasilyukChapter 7 Actualizing tendency, organismic wisdom and understanding the world Salvador Moreno-LópezChapter 8 Person-centred approach as discursivity and person-centred therapy as heterotopic practice Pavlos ZarogiannisChapter 9 Client-centered: an ethical therapy Bert Rice and Kathryn A. MoonChapter 10 Experiencing and the person-centred approach Nikolaos KypriotakisChapter 11 Experiential–existential psychotherapy: deepening existence, engaging with life Siebrecht VanhoorenPart III Person-centred therapy and spiritualityChapter 12 From the scientific to the mystical in the work of Carl Rogers Michael SivoriChapter 13 Living from the ‘formative tendency’: ‘cosmic congruence’ Judy MooreChapter 14"A kind of liking which has strength" (Carl Rogers): does person-centred therapy facilitate through love? Peter F. SchmidPart IV Person-centred learning and trainingChapter 15 Enter centre stage, the case study… Deborah A. LeeChapter 16 Sheep of tomorrow Manu BazzanoChapter 17 What do I know and how do I know it?: theories of knowledge and the person-centred approach Dot ClarkChapter 18 The empathor's new clothes: when person-centered practices and evidence-based claims collide Blake Griffin EdwardsPart V Challenging some aspects of person-centred practiceChapter 19 Challenging snoopervision: how can person-centered practitioners offer new alternatives to the fracturing of the person in the supervision relationship? Zoë KrupkaChapter 20 Re-visioning person-centred research Jo Hilton and Seamus PriorChapter 21 Psychopathology and the future of person-centred therapy Andrew SchillerChapter 22 Presence: the fourth condition Sarton WeinraubChapter 23 A place in which everything can go Darran BilesChapter 24 A person-centred political critique of current discourses in post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth Deborah A. Lee