Dr Roger Kingerlee was educated at the Universities of Oxford, Berlin, Hamburg and East Anglia, and is now a practising chartered clinical psychologist in Norfolk. The Therapy Experience is part self-help, part-confession and part-plea for compassion. Kingerlee draws on his personal and professional experience of psychological issues and current clinical psychological practice to argue that there are excellent reasons to treat each other, and ourselves, respectfully--as happens in good psychotherapy. This is because each one of us sets the psychological climate in which others live, no matter what our age, gender, or cultural background.

"An excellent introduction to mindfulness therapy, with penetrating discussion of its wider relevance to how we can live well together." Lord Richard Layard Dr. Kingerlee's book, full of understanding and open-hearted compassion, draws attention to the crucial part that mindful empathy and acceptance play in the therapeutic relationship. Read this book. Open to it. Cultivate mindfulness. It could change your life." Michael Chaskalson, Mindfulness expert, Cambridge, UK

• 1. We Affect Each Other 2. Explaining Mindfulness 3. Psychological World Collide: The treatment of children 4. Me and My Shaky Psyche 5. Back Together: Kindness and mindful psychotherapy 6. Mindful Treatment of the Younger Person 7. Mindful Treatment of the Adult 8. Mindful Treatment of the Person in Later Life 9. Hope