Art of Bohart

Arthur C. Bohart is Professor Emeritus at both California State University Dominguez Hills and Saybrook University. He is the co-author or co-editor of several books, including How Clients Make Therapy Work: The process of active self-healing, Empathy Reconsidered: Humanity's dark side, and Constructive and Destructive Behavior. His work has focused on empathy, the client's role in psychotherapy, client-centred therapy, psychotherapy integration and evidence-based practice in psychotherapy. Currently, he is semi-retired and doing part-time teaching at Santa Clara University.

'Art represents contemporary person-centred therapy at its best: provocative and passionate yet also open-minded, down-to-earth and full of compassion and common sense. I'm delighted that I will now be able to point my students in the direction of this lovely edition of his previously unpublished papers. Read these Artful essays one at time and savour them. An Art a day keeps the CBT away!' Robert Elliott, Professor of Counselling, University of Strathclyde, UK; 'An international treasure of humanistic psychology and psychotherapy integration, Art Bohart offers his poignant insight and clinical wisdom in this new volume. He's one of a handful of psychotherapists I always read, and I enthusiastically encourage you to do likewise.' John C. Norcross, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychology, University of Scranton, USA; 'Art Bohart is one of the most influential and progressive thinkers within the field of psychotherapy. This book is a reflection of his true creativeness.' David Murphy, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, UK

• Foreword by Pete Sanders, Introduction, 1. Person-centred therapy: a radical vision, 2. Enhancing personhood: working with the one who does not get ill, 3. Further meditations on clients' wisdom, 4. Empathy-based psychotherapy: developing a model of person-to-person psychotherapy, 5. Self-organising wisdom in psychotherapy: theoretical conception and early empirical investigations (co-authored with Makenna Berry Newton), 6. Some neglected insights of Carl Rogers, 7. Becoming the self that one is: an implicational view of personal change, 8. Listening to subjectivity, 9. Of mindsets and meta-perspectives: person-centred therapy and assimilative integration, 10. Listening as being, 11. The pernicious idea of avoidance, 12. Working with the internal critic.