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30th July 2010
Against and For CBT: Towards a constructive dialogue?

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Richard House and Del Loewenthal (eds)
2008 ISBN 978 1 906254 10 0
Very well received. Already a best seller

This book offers both a wide range of critical perspectives on CBT from around the world, and substantial responses to them. It represents the first attempt to engage in print with the controversies and complexities that have exercised — sometimes painfully — the therapy and counselling world, as cognitive-behavioural therapy ( CBT) has risen to such cultural prominence as Western governments take a serious interest in the psychological therapies as instruments of public policy-making.

   Against and For CBT will be essential reading for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and counsellors of each and every approach who are concerned with understanding the phenomenon that is ‘ CBT and its discontents’. It will be core reading both on IAPT/CBT and contrasting modality training courses that wish to encourage critical engagement with the meaning and cultural context of therapeutic help in the modern world.
 
 
PROFESSOR COLIN FELTHAM THERAPY TODAY, FEBRUARY 2009:
'This is a book that had to come ... [it] is undoubtedly one of the few counselling and psychotherapy books to take on in an urgent and necessary way such a hotly debated topic. It is thoughtfully nuanced in ways that CBT literature seldom is. I sincerely hope Layard. for one, will read it. All higher-level counselling and psychotherapy courses would benefit from including it prominently on reading lists.'
 
 PROFESSOR ANDREW SAMUELS:
'This welcome new collection … provides us with many cogent and convincing arguments for, at the very least, questioning the epistemological underpinnings and the methodological validity of the ‘evidence-based’ ideology in which CBT and its supporters have become accustomed to basking. … [T]his splendid new book … promises to open up a crucial and long-overdue dialogue, and introduce the associated ‘battle for the soul’ of therapy work itself.'
 
PROFESSOR STEPHEN PALMER:
'[CBT] is constantly developing, acquiring and integrating new ideas, many underpinned by research, and adapting to the requirements of the day. Unlike some approaches, it is not moribund, nor held back by dogma. Its commonsense, pragmatic approach will continue to have wide appeal, regardless of how it is viewed within the counselling and psychotherapy professions.'

 Authors and Affiliations:

THE EDITORS

Richard House Ph.D. is Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, Roehampton University. His books include Therapy Beyond Modernity (Karnac, 2003), co-editing Implausible Professions (PCCS Books, 1997) and Ethically Challenged Professions (PCCS Books, 2003). The Theory Editor of the European Journal for Psychotherapy and Counselling, he has helped to found the Independent Practitioners Network.

 
Professor Del Loewenthal directs Roehampton University’s Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, and practises as an existential-analytic psychotherapist. His publications include Post-modernism for Psychotherapists (with Robert Snell, Routledge, 2003), What is Psychotherapeutic Research? (co-editor David Winter, Karnac, 2006), and Case Studies in Relational Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).  Del is founding editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling (Routledge).

 

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Forewords

Professor Andrew Samuels & Professor Stephen Palmer

 

1. Introduction: An exploration of the criticisms of CBT  

Richard House & Del Loewenthal 

 

CBT PERSPECTIVES & RESPONSES

2. What is CBT Really and How Can We Enhance the Impact of Effective Psychotherapies Such As CBT? 

Warren Mansell

3. The Case for CBT: A practical perspective from the NHS front line 

Isabel Clarke

4. A Response to the Chapters

Adrian Hemmings

 

PARADIGMATIC PERSPECTIVES

5.  Behaviour Therapy and the Ideology of Modernity: Revisited

Robert L. Woolfolk and Frank Richardson 

6.  CBT in Historico-Cultural Perspective

David Brazier 

7.  Cognitive-behavioural Therapy and Evidence-Based Practice: Past,

present and future

John Lees 

8.  Cognitive Therapy, Cartesianism and the Moral Order

Patrick Bracken & Philip Thomas 

 

CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES

9.  Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Rival paradigms or common ground?

Jane Milton

10. Person-Centred Therapy, A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Keith Tudor

11. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: From rationalism to constructivism?

David A. Winter

12.  Post-Existentialism as a Reaction to CBT?

Del Loewenthal  

13. Considering the Dialogic Potentials of Cognitive Therapy

Tom Strong, Mishka Lysack & Olga Sutherland

 

EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES

14.  Thinking Thoughtfully About Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

John D. Kaye 

15.  CBT and Empirically Validated Therapies: Infiltrating codes of ethics

Christy Bryceland & Henderikus J. Stam

16.  Empirically Supported/Validated Treatments as Modernist Ideology,I: Dodo, marginalization, and the paradigm question
Arthur C. Bohart & Richard House
17.  Empirically Supported/Validated Treatments as Modernist Ideology,II: Alternative perspectives on research and practice
Richard House & Arthur C. Bohart

18.  Where is the Magic in Cognitive Therapy? Philo/psychological investigation

Fred Newman 

 

 

POLITICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

19.  CBT’s Integration into Societal Networks of Power

Michael Guilfoyle

20.  CBT: The obscuring of power in the name of science

Gillian Proctor

21.  Reading ‘Happiness’: CBT and the Layard thesis 

David Pilgrim

22.  CBT and the French Connection: L’anti-livre noir de la psychoanalyse

Robert Snell

23.  Beck Never Lived in Birmingham: Why Cognitive Behavioural Therapy may be a less helpful treatment for psychological distress than is often supposed

Paul Moloney & Paul Kelly
 

24. Conclusion: Contesting therapy paradigms about what it means to be human

Del Loewenthal & Richard House

 
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