Working At Relational Depth In Counselling And Psychotherapy

'The book represents a 'gentle revolution'. The gentleness comes from its lack of stridency and from its inclusiveness and the radical quality is that person-centred therapy in particular and all therapeutic work in general cannot be the same again' - Therapy Today 'this is a great most important and for the English-language readership ground-breaking book. The subject of the book is of enormous interest and importance within and beyond the person-centered and experiential orientations in the whole field of psychotherapy and counselling both in its practice and its theoretical development. This great book had to be written. It presents an existential phenomenological dialogical approach at its best and highlights the power of encounter relationship. This book does not only portray the
state of the art of person-centered and experiential psychotherapies. Since many modalities develop in this direction - it is foundational for the realm of psychotherapy and counselling as such. The book is of enormous international interest; not only the international perspective on literature and development in the field but also the cross-links of different views contribute to the development of psychotherapy and counselling and will be fruitful for interdisciplinary dialogue. This book stands as a landmark. It will be very influential to theory and practice. If you don't read it you will not be able to join in further discussion and theory and practice developments' - Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies 'Mick Cooper and Dave Mearns have managed to literally write with
relational depth. This reader experienced them as human beings from their introductions in the preface. Their authenticity their transparency and their humility evident from the first few words mirrored the encounter at relational depth" this book is dedicated to. By the end of chapter 6 the reader can imagine every trainee in the future with a well-worn coffee and tear-stained copy of this book in their satchel. This is quite simply a very good book' - Eisteach 'a bold heart-felt and daring discourse on the issue of communication in the therapeutic encounter. Somebody needed to write a book such as this. Hopefully it will encourage us to examine more closely and conduct more research upon what happens between therapists and their clients' - Psychology and Psychotherapy 'I found this book
really refreshing and more relevant to my practice as a counsellor than any other book on the subject which I have ever read. It felt very erudite honest and "real" truly representative and reflective of what it's like to attempt to work as a person-centred counsellor and also found it stimulating / enlightening. My experience reading it was one of being accompanied and understood as a practitioner there were a lot of "yes that's how it is" moments as well as "that's how it should / could be" times too and I also felt both guided and inspired like receiving good supervision in book form. In addition I found the writing style very accessible warm and engaging' - Person-Centred Counsellor Staffordshire University 'It does not happen very often that a scientific publication is an exiting read
but in this case that was indeed my experience. It touched me as a reader in its written genuineness and I appreciate the fact that the views expressed in this book seem to be firmly grounded in scientific research rather than the research being used as a simple way of demonstration or proving a point. The cooperation between the authors has apparently been so thorough that throughout the various chapters only small differences in style can be noticed'- Tijdschrift Clientgerichte Psychotherapie 'I believe this book will have a durable and intense impact on the perception and discussion of person-centred theory. It is a brilliant exposition of where person-centred theory is at. The new developments are integrated into the fabric of person-centredness in ways that "