Table of Contents

Preface The Contributors Introduction Pete Sanders Chapter 1 History of Client-Centred Therapy and the Person-Centred Approach: events, dates and ideas Pete Sanders Chapter 2 Classical Client-Centred Therapy Tony Merry Chapter 3 Focusing-Oriented Therapy Campbell Purton Chapter 4 Experiential Person-Centred Therapy Nick Baker Chapter 5 Emotion-Focused Therapy Robert Elliott Chapter 6 Existentially-informed Person-Centred Therapy Mick Cooper Chapter 7 Integrating with integrity Richard Worsley Chapter 8 New developments: Person-Centred Expressive Therapies - Dinah Brown Pre-therapy - Pete Sanders Relational Depth - Rosanne Knox Counselling for Depression - Andy Hill Appendix Mapping person-centred approaches to counselling and psychotherapy Pete Sanders Index

About the Author

Pete Sanders spent over 30 years practising as a counsellor, educator and clinical supervisor. He has written, co-written and edited numerous books, chapters and papers on many aspects of counselling, psychotherapy and mental health. He continues to have active interest in developing person-centred theory, the politics of counselling and psychotherapy, and the demedicalisation of distress. He has given keynote addresses at several UK and European conferences and also offers workshops in a few areas that continue to interest him. He is a a pre-therapy/contact work trainer and trustee of the Soteria Network UK