Person-Centred Therapy

The person-centred approach is one of the most popular, enduring and respected approaches to psychotherapy and counselling. Person-Centred Therapy returns to its original formulations to define it as radically different from other self-oriented therapies. Keith Tudor and Mike Worrall draw on a wealth of experience as practitioners, a deep knowledge of the approach and its history, and a broad and inclusive awareness of other approaches. This significant contribution to the advancement of person-centred therapy: - Examines the roots of person-centred thinking in existential, phenomenological and organismic philosophy. - Locates the approach in the context of other approaches to psychotherapy and counselling. - Shows how recent research in areas such as neuroscience support the philosophical premises of person-centred therapy. - Challenges person-centred therapists to examine their practice in the light of the history and philosophical principles of the approach. Person-Centred Therapy offers new and exciting perspectives on the process and practice of therapy, and will encourage person-centred practitioners to think about their work in deeper and more sophisticated ways.

Keith Tudor is a Director of Temenos and its Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Person-Centred Psychotherapy & Counselling. He is also an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Health, Liverpool John Moores University. Mike Worrall is a person-centred counsellor and supervisor in independent practice in Oxford.

Series Preface. Introduction. Philosophy. Organism. Tendencies. Self. Person. Alienation. Conditions. Process. Environment.