Person-Centred Practice

Tony Merry was Reader in Psychology and the University of East London and taught on postgraduate and undergraduate courses in counselling and counselling psychology. He was author of several books and articles on counselling and psychology. He co-founded the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA) in 1989 and was editor of Person-Centred Practice until his untimely death in 2004. He contributed to workshops and other person-centred events in Europe, including several with Carl Rogers in England, Ireland and Hungary in the 1980s.

This splendid book should do much to embolden person-centred practitioners so that they can enter the dialogical battle ground with renewed confidence and no little pride in the tradition which they represent. The book's very existence points to a thriving professional association, a flourishing journal and a successful publishing house primarily committed to the advancement of person-centred therapy and its associated activities. This is no mean springboard for the approach at the beginning of the new millennium and we do well to remind ourselves of the strength inherent in all three accomplishments. Professor Brian Thorne, Person-Centred Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2. Autumn 2000.

• Jerold Bozarth, Playing the Probabilities in Psychotherapy David Brazier, Beyond Carl Rogers Alan Brice, A Case Study of Therapeutic Support Using e-mail Barbara Temener Brodley, The Therapeutic Clinical Interview -- Guidelines for Beginning Practice Barbara Temener Brodley and Tony Merry, Guidelines for Student Participants in Person-Centred Peer Groups Rose Cameron, The Personal is Political -- Re-reading Rogers Pru Conradi, Dreams, the Unconscious and the Person-Centred Approach: Revisioning Practice Alan Coulson, The Person-Centred Approach and the Reinstatement of the Unconscious Alan Coulson, Person-Centred Process and Personal Transformation Ivan Ellingham, Key Strategy for the Development of a Person-Centred Paradigm of Counselling/Psychotherapy Irene Fairhurst, Rigid or Pure? Mike Farrell, Person-Centred Approach? Working with Addictions Sheila Haugh, Congruence: A Confusion of Language Jan Hawkins, Survivors of Childhood Abuse -- The Person-Centred Approach: A Special Contribution Pam Janecka, On Being There Matt Jones, Person-Centred Theory and the Postmodern Turn Anne Kearney, Class, Politics and the Training of Counsellors Suzanne Keys, The Person-Centred Counsellor as an Agent of Human Rights Mary Kilborn, The Quality of Acceptance Mary Kilborn, Too Close for Comfort: Levels of Intimacy in the Counselling Relationship Dave Mearns, The Dance of Psychotherapy Tony Merry, Client-Centred Therapy: Origins and Influences Tony Merry, Selected Editorials Judy Moore, Who is the 'Person' in the Person-Centred Approach? Liz Nicholls, Storymaking and Storytelling John Pratt, The Logic and Practice of Counselling Skills Garry Prouty, Carl Rogers and Experiential Therapies: A Dissonance? Gary Prouty, Pre-Therapy and the Pre-Expressive Self Ruth Reid, Person-Centred Counselling in a Primary Health Care Setting: A Personal Perspective Keith Tudor, The Personal is Political - and the Political is Personal Paul Wilkins, Towards a Person-Centred Understanding of Consciousness and the Unconscious Paul Wilkins, Can Psychodrama be Person-Centred?