Shouldn't I Be Feeling Better By Now?

YVONNE BATES is a Freelance Counsellor working within the Alexander Group. Previous works include Ethically Challenged Professions: Enabling Innovation and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Counselling (co-edited with Richard House, 2003). She is Managing Editor of Ipnosis - an independent journal for practitioners.

'Anyone involved with the training of therapists needs to read this book.' - John Rowan, BACPNL Magazine 'Shouldn't I be feeling better by now? is a timely and important publication...thought provoking and inspirational, and should trigger an overdue debate around the question: What happens when the therapy doesn't work? Pat Coleman, Health Matters 'I would thoroughly recommend this book to others who are interested in therapy...I found reading it prompted me to reflect on issues that I had not really thought about before, and led me to question some of my own beliefs about therapy.' - Robert Farrelly, Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy

• Acknowledgements and DedicationPreface; Y.BatesIntroduction; V.IronsidePART ILove in an Estate of Bondage; S.WildeA Silent Self; J.HareTwenty Years Ago; A.SmithAn Adventure in Hypnotherapy; N.SimpsonHer Mistake Cost Me Dearly: Emotional Abuse in Psychotherapy; M.SchepisiThe Client Says Not; M.HellewellPART IIA Digest of Ann France's "Consuming Psychotherapy"; R.HouseUntwining the Transference; N.SimpsonWhy Practise Informed Consent? One Client's Perspective; R.DeanAlice's Adventures in Psychoanalysis; A.de PaulaAnti-therapy; V.IronsideAnna Sands on Language, Reality and AmoralitySummary of the IssuesPART IIIForum of Voices: Rising to the ChallengeA Dialogue Between a Client and a Psychotherapist; R.Alexander & M.JacobsConclusion: Welcoming the Client Voice Movement; R.HouseAfterword; F.WeldonAppendix: Research into the Efficacy of Counselling and Psychotherapy and its Relevance to Subjective ReportsSuggested Further Reading.