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FACE TO FACE |
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THERAPY AS ETHICS |
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Paul Goldon |
| There is a great deal wrong with psychotherapy as it is currently practised and written about. The babel of voices too often leads on the one hand to an unthinking and inconsistent eclecticism, and on the other to different forms of dogmatism where there is little space for questioning. While much theory about therapy is increasingly elaborate, what gets lost is what any form of psychotherapy is really about: an attempted meeting between two people. |
| In this book, Paul Gordon argues that psychotherapy is fundamentally an ethical endeavour in which the therapist is called upon to take up a stance of responsibility and openness to the other. Such openness requires the abandonment of a great many preconceptions and a critical examination of what is too often taken for granted, including language, listening, interpretation and the therapeutic space. The author speaks engagingly of an encounter with poetry, arguing that its methods and metaphors can lead on to a new view of therapy. He also urges that an ethical therapy has to move beyond the confines of the consulting room to a real engagement with the world. |
| Constable 1999 | ||
| 0 09 479160 0 |
£15.99 |
