THE TROUBLE WITH PSYCHOTHERAPY

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Current therapeutic practice is grounded in traditional theories of psychotherapy such as the theories that underlie cognitivebehavioural psychodynamic and personcentred practice. But none of these approaches has been proven to be more effective than any other leaving the therapist with an ethical and professional dilemma: how do you advocate and practise one theory with your clients when a completely different theoretical approach is being successfully practised down the road? brbrIn this book Campbell Purton argues that psychotherapy and counselling theories fail to provide adequate justification for their practice. Part 1 highlights the weaknesses and dangers that underlie traditional counselling theories and their derivatives including psychodynamic cognitive behavioural existential and neuroscience approaches. Having unpicked these theories Part 2 goes on to develop an exciting new way of thinking about therapy that does not rely on theory one that can be likened to a common sense approach to therapeutic practice. brbrThis book poses important questions and offers unique insight for anyone studying or practising in the field of counselling and psychothePART I: THE TROUBLE. 1. The Effectiveness of Psychotherapy. 2. Theories and Common Sense. 3. Historical Prologue: Behaviourism and Behaviour Therapy. 4. PersonCentred Therapy. 5. Psychodynamic Therapy. 6. CognitiveBehavioural Therapy. 7. ProcessExperiential/ EmotionFocused Therapy. 8. Existential Therapy. 9. Neuroscience. PART II: STARTING AGAIN. 10. The Troubled Client br/ 11. Psychotherapy Integration. 12. Implications for Practice and TrCampbell Purtonis Associate Tutor at the Centre for Counselling Studies University of East Anglia. He is the author ofem PersonCentred Therapy: The FocusingOriented Approach/em (2004 Palgrave) and emThe FocusingOriented Primer/em (20Current therapeutic practice is grounded in traditional theories of psychotherapy such as the theories that underlie cognitivebehavioural psychodynamic and personcentred practice. But none of these approaches has been proven to be more effective than any other leaving the therapist with an ethical and professional dilemma: how do you advocate and practise one theory with your clients when a completely different theoretical approach is being successfully practised down the road? brbrIn this book Campbell Purton argues that psychotherapy and counselling theories fail to provide adequate justification for their practice. Part 1 highlights the weaknesses and dangers that underlie traditional counselling theories and their derivatives including psychodynamic cognitive behavioural existential and neuroscience approaches. Having unpicked these theories Part 2 goes on to develop an exciting new way of thinking about therapy that does not rely on theory one that can be likened to a common sense approach to therapeutic practice. brbrThis book poses important questions and offers unique insight for anyone stud

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