This book includes 39 papers presented at the International Conference on Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy held in Chicago in May 2000. An international collection of papers spanning theory and practice across classical client-centred to experiential psychotherapy. Continuing the tradition of groundbreaking texts which have developed from previous ICCCEP conferences, this volume is a selected representative collection from this important academic gathering.

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Theory

Germain Lietaer: The Client-Centred/Experiential Paradigm in Psychotherapy: Development and identity

Ivan Ellingham: Foundation for a Person-Centred, Humanistic Psychology and Beyond: The nature and logic of Carl Rogers' 'Formative Tendency'

Peter F. Schmid: The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Being Person-Centered: On identity, integrity, integration and differentiation of the paradigm

Marion N. Hendricks: What Difference Does Philosophy Make? Crossing Gendlin and Rogers

Sarah Hawtin: The Organismic Valuing Process and Ethics in Person-Centred Theory

Sachiko Hayashi and Atsushi Kara: Understanding the Self through Taoist Emptiness

Gillian Proctor: Power in Person-Centred Therapy

Campbell Purton: Focusing on Focusing: the practice and the philosophy

Edwin Kahn: Heinz Kohut's Empathy

Nathaniel Raskin: Rogers' Empathy: A revolutionary innovation

Gerhard Stumm: The Person-Centered Approach and Self Psychology

Martin Van Kalmthout: The Farther Reaches of Person-Centered Psychotherapy

Janet Tolan: The Fallacy of the 'Real' Self: In praise of self structure

 

Research

Michael Behr & Martina Becker: Congruence and Experiencing Emotions: Self-report scales for the Person-Centered and Experiential theory of personality

Jerold D. Bozarth: Empirically Supported Treatment: Epitome of the 'Specificity Myth'

Barbara Temaner Brodley: Observations of Empathic Understanding In Two Client-Centered Therapists

Leslie S. Greenberg & Rachel Rushanski-Rosenberg: Therapist's Experience of Empathy

James Iberg: Psychometric Development of Measures of In-session Focusing Activity: The Focusing-oriented Session Report and the Therapist Ratings of Client Focusing Activity

Kevin C. Krycka & Deb Lambo: Gendlin's Edge: Making fresh sense out of gay and lesbian experience

Arthur C. Bohart: A Passionate Critique of Empirically Supported Treatments and the Provision of an Alternative Paradigm

Soti Grafanaki: On Becoming Congruent: How congruence works in Person-Centred Counselling and practical applications for training and practice

Paul Wilkins & Zinnia Mitchell-Williams: The Theory and Experience of Person-Centered Research

Jeanne C. Watson & Meghan Prosser: Development of an Observer Rated Measure of Therapist Empathy

 

Practice

Marijke C.L. Baljon: Focusing in Client-Centred Psychotherapy Supervision. Teaching congruence

Ton Coffeng: Two Phases of Dissociation, Two Languages

Ned L. Gaylin: The Relationship: The heart of the matter

J. Wade Hannon & Will Eckersell: Infusing Client-Centered/Person-Centered Counseling into a Traditional Counselor Education Program

Bala Jaison: Integrating Experiential and Brief Therapy Models: A guide for clinicians

Claude Missiaen: Client-Centered Group Psychotherapy: Six theses put to the test. A contribution from practice

Marlis Pörtner: Psychotherapy for People with Special Needs: A challenge for client-centered psychotherapists

Natalie Rogers: Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy: A path to wholeness

Bob Sikkema: Unconditionality: Being present in an attentive way to help translate thoughts into the language of feeling

William B. Stiles and Meredith J. Glick: Client-Centered Therapy With Multi-Voiced Clients: Empathy with whom?

Nele Stinckens, Germain Lietaer & Mia Leijssen: Working with the Inner Critic: Fighting 'the enemy' or keeping it company

Rhonda Goldman: The Two-Chair Dialogue for Inner Conflict

Carla R. van der Moolen: Doctor, Please Make Me Well Again! On clients having severe subjective health complaints (the Somatoform Disorder) Margaret S. Warner: Luke's Dilemmas: A Client-Centered/Experiential Model of processing with a schizophrenic thought disorder

Ann Loevering: Person-Centered and Feminist Theories: How we connect them in our work with groups of Mexican women

Kathryn Moon: Nondirective Client-Centered Work with Children