Table of Contents

Preface

Part One: Origins: The History and Development of the Person Centred Approach (1930’s-1980’s)

1. The Phenomenological, Cultural and Historical Antecedents to the Person Centered Approach

2. Rogers: Rigour, Research and Recordings

3. Rogers’ Life Trajectory: Fame, Disappointment and a Movement in Focus

4. Tenderness in Person-centred Therapy: A Spiritual Dimension?  

5. The PCA in other settings

Part Two: Post Rogers: Other contributions to theory and practice of the Person Centred Approach.

6. Developing Perspectives and Themes in Person-Centred Theory

7. Configurations of Self: A Person Centred Perspective

8. Relational Depth: Theory, Research and Practice

9. Psychopathology and the Person-Centred Perspective

10. Difficult Process: Working with Fragile and Dissociated Client Experience

11. Working with Complex Trauma & Dissociation: Towards an Integration of Person-Centred Perspectives with other Theoretical Approaches

12. Journey to the Heart of Person-Centered Psychotherapy: A Belief in Clients’ Self-Righting Capacities

13. Critiques of Person-Centred Theory – From Within and from Outside the Person-Centred Nation

14. Person-centred couple and family therapy

15. Group Therapy and therapeutic groups

Part Three: The Emergence of the ‘Tribes’: New theoretical paradigms, practices and research outcomes

16. Emerging Tribes and New Paradigms

17. Pre-Therapy and working on contact

18. ‘Focusing’ and ‘Experiencing’: Gendlin’s early contribution to Client-Centred Theory and its implicatiofor practice

19. Cutting Edge Person Centred Expressive Arts

20. Emotion-Focussed Therapy

21. Research On Person-Centred-Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling: Summary of the Main Findings

Part Four: Difference, Diversity and Future Challenges.

22. Exploring applications of the Person Centred Approach in a Middle Eastern context: Emerging theoretical and practice considerations

23. The White Therapist: Privilege and Power

24. Disfigurement, Disability and Diversity: Addressing the visible and invisible challenges to the Person Centred Therapist of these dimensions of client presentation

25. Challenges to Person Centred Theory and Practice from the Perspective of the Therapist from Minority Groups within Society

26. Thinking about the other: conversations and context

27. On Becoming a Person Centred Therapist for these Contemporary Times: Suggestions for Professional Development in the Context of Diversity

Part Five: Person Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies: Current Positioning and Future Possibilities.

28. Identity Aspects of the Person Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy Family

29. Person Centred Futures: Surveying the Landscape

About the Author

Divine Charura is a senior lecturer in psychotherapy at Leeds Beckett University, UK.He is also a UKCP registered Psychotherapist and Supervisor, and an author andeditor of several psychotherapy books, including The Therapeutic Relationship Handbook: Theory and Practice (OpenUniversity Press 2014).

Colin Lago is a Fellow of the BACP and works as an independent therapist, havingworked at Sheffield and De Montfort universities since the late 70s. Writingparticularly within the realm of diversity, he has written and edited manytexts over the years, including TheHandbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy (Open UniversityPress 2011).