Re-visioning Person-Centred Therapy: Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm

381 Pages·2018·3.134 MB·English

by  Manu Bazzano (editor)

RE-VISIONING PERSON-CENTRED
THERAPY
By exploring various ways to assimilate recent progressive developments and to
renew its vital links with its radical roots, Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy:
Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm takes a fresh look at this revolutionary
therapeutic approach.
Bringing together leading figures in PCT and new writers from around the
world, the essays in this book create fertile links with phenomenology, meditation
and spirituality, critical theory, contemporary thought and culture, and philosophy
of science. In doing so, they create an outline that renews and re-visions person-
centred therapy’s radical paradigm, providing fertile material in both theory and
practice.
Shotthroughwith clinicalstudies,vignettesand in-depthdiscussionsonaspectsof
theory, Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy will be stimulating reading for therapists
in training and practice, as well as those interested in the development of PCT.
Manu Bazzano is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice. He has
studied eastern contemplative practices since 1980. He is the author and editor of
many books, including Zen and Therapy, After Mindfulness and Nietzsche and Psy-
chotherapy. A visiting lecturer at the University of Roehampton, London, he facil-
itates workshops and seminars internationally. He is editor of Person-Centered and
Experiential Psychotherapy and associate editor of Self & Society.
‘Heretical, subversive, a celebration of precarious uncertainty, and yet radically
personal, this book will inspire trainees and new therapists, of any tradition, to save
our profession. Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy expands the scope of Rogers’
approach,updatingandredeeminginequalmeasure.Thebookitselfisaninstanceof
its message, diverse, unexpected, gritty and well-argued. If you want to remain
comfortable, offering manualised “treatments” to patients in order to retire and die
peacefully, then avoid this book.’
Greg Madison, PhD, non-affiliated international lecturer, writer,
Founder of London Focusing Institute
‘This book represents a remarkable contribution in the contemporary Person-
centred Therapy world. Bringing together both a critique and a call for a reinven-
tion of theory and practice, it takes up Rogers’ original proposal and brings it for-
ward, broadening, updating and consolidating this perspective for our times. This
results in a fruitful and creative renewal of PCT instigated by authors and practi-
tioners from various parts of the world. Carl Rogers would certainly be proud to
readthisbook.’
Virginia Moreira, APHETO, Laboratory of Psychopathology and Humanist
Phenomenological Psychotherapy, University of Fortaleza, Brazil
‘This is a welcome and timely book for anyone interested in person-centred psy-
chotherapeutic work. It takes a completely fresh look at person-centred and
experiential therapies by offering critical and innovative approaches to theory and
practice, while also sustaining relevance to contemporary therapeutic needs. Parti-
cularly distinctive strengths are the transcultural perspectives; the philosophical
breadth, which is inclusive of spirituality and political awareness; and the practical
applications of theory to practice.’
Jean O’Callaghan, Convener of the MA Integrative Counselling and
Psychotherapy training (BACP accredited) at the University of
Roehampton, London, UK
RE-VISIONING PERSON-
CENTRED THERAPY
Theory and Practice of a Radical
Paradigm
Edited by Manu Bazzano
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In Memoriam
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CONTENTS
List of contributors x
Introduction xvi
Manu Bazzano
Tribute to Fyodor E. Vasilyuk xxiv
Tatiana Karyagina and Fedor Shankov
PARTI
Some kinds of love: person-centred therapy and the
relational dimension 1
1 Therapy as an accident waiting to happen 3
Julie Webb
2 The psychotherapeutic encounter as a political act of
micro multitude 17
Claudio Rud
3 Beauty and the Cyborg 28
Manu Bazzano
4 Walking backwards towards the future: reclaiming the radical
roots – and future – of person-centred therapy 46
Keith Tudor
5 Ethics and the person-centered approach: a dialogue with
radical alterity 60
Emanuel Meireles Vieira and Francisco Pablo Huascar Aragão Pinheiro
viii Contents
PARTII
The politics of experience 77
6 Dialectics of person and experiencing 79
Tatiana Karyagina and Fyodor E. Vasilyuk
7 Actualizing tendency, organismic wisdom and understanding
the world 93
Salvador Moreno-López
8 Person-centred approach as discursivity and person-centred
therapy as heterotopic practice 110
Pavlos Zarogiannis
9 Client-centered: an ethical therapy 128
Bert Rice and Kathryn A. Moon
10 Experiencing and the person-centred approach 137
Nikolaos Kypriotakis
11 Experiential-existential psychotherapy: deepening existence,
engaging with life 151
Siebrecht Vanhooren
PARTIII
Person-centred therapy and spirituality 165
12 From the scientific to the mystical in the work of
Carl Rogers 167
Michael Sivori
13 Living from the ‘formative tendency’: ‘cosmic congruence’ 174
Judy Moore
14 “A kind of liking which has strength” (Carl Rogers): does
person-centred therapy facilitate through love? 192
Peter F. Schmid
PARTIV
Person-centred learning and training 209
15 Enter centre stage, the case study… 211
Deborah A. Lee
16 Sheep of tomorrow 226
Manu Bazzano
Contents ix
17 What do I know and how do I know it?: theories of knowledge
and the person-centred approach 237
Dot Clark
18 The empathor’s new clothes: when person-centered practices
and evidence-based claims collide 247
Blake Griffin Edwards
PARTV
Challenging some aspects of person-centred practice 263
19 Challenging snoopervision: how can person-centered
practitioners offer new alternatives to the fracturing of the
person in the supervision relationship? 265
Zoë Krupka
20 Re-visioning person-centred research 277
Jo Hilton and Seamus Prior
21 Psychopathology and the future of person-centred therapy 289
Andrew Schiller
22 Presence: the fourth condition 300
Sarton Weinraub
23 A place in which everything can go 315
Darran Biles
24 A person-centred political critique of current discourses in
post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth 330
Deborah A. Lee
Index 342