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Against and For CBT: Towards a constructive dialogue?

Against and For CBT: Towards a constructive dialogue?

Richard House
Del Loewenthal

ISBN 978 1 906254 10 0 (2008)

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This book offers a wide range of critical perpectives on cogntive-behavioural therapy (CBT) from around the world, and substantial responses to them. It represents the first attempt to engage in print wih the controversies and complexities that exercised — sometimes painfully — the therapy and counselling world, since CBT has risen to such cultural prominence as Western goverments take a serious interest in the psychological therapies as intruments of public policy making. Essential reading for mental health practitioners who are concerned with understanding the phenomenon that is 'CBT and its discontents'. Core reading on IAPT/CBT and contrasting modalities training courses interested in critical engagement. 

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

This is a book that had to come. The alleged superiority and fantasized unstoppable ascendancy of CBT over the last few years has constituted a bubble that had to be burst ... This is an unusually intelligent book that invites the reader straight into the heart of the debate and proceeds to lay out multiple challenging angles on CBT by accomplished writers, largely from the Anglo-American world ... This is undoubtedly one of few counselling and psychotherapy books really to take on in an urgent and necessary way such a hotly debated contemporary topic. It is thoughtfully nuanced in ways that CBT literature seldom is. I sincerely hope that Layard, for one, will read it. Colin Feltham, Professor of Critical Counselling, Sheffield Hallam University, until 2010.

Richard House

Richard House

Richard House Ph.D., C.Psychol. is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies (Early Childhood) at the University of Winchester, and was previously Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy and Counselling in the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, University of Roehampton, between 2005 and 2012. A trained counsellor and psychotherapist and a therapy practitioner since 1990, his books include In, Against and Beyond Therapy (PCCS, 2010), Therapy Beyond Modernity (Karnac, 2003), Against and For CBT (co-editor Del Loewenthal, PCCS, 2008), Too Much, Too Soon? – Early Learning and the Erosion of Childhood (Hawthorn, 2012, editor) and Childhood, Well-being and a Therapeutic Ethos (co-editor Del Loewenthal, Karnac, 2009). Richard is a co-founder of the Independent Practitioners Network, in which he has participated since 1994, and of the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which campaigned successfully against state regulation of counselling and psychotherapy by the UK Health Professions Council. Richard is also a trained Steiner Kindergarten and class teacher, co-founding the ‘Open EYE’ and Early Childhood Action campaigns in 2007 and 2012 respectively, and, with author Sue Palmer, co-orchestrating the three press Open Letters on ‘toxic childhood’,‘play’ and the ‘erosion of childhood’ in (respectively) 2006, 2007 and 2011, thushelping to precipitate a global media debate about the state of childhood in modern technological culture. Richard is co-editor of Self and Society, the journal of the Association of Humanistic Psychology (UK), Theory Editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Associate Editor of Psychotherapy and Politics International.

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Del Loewenthal

Del Loewenthal

Professor Del Loewenthal directs Roehampton University's Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, and practises as a post-existential psychotherapist and counselling psychologist in Wimbledon and Brighton. His publications include Post-existentialism for the psychological therapies (Routledge), Against and For CBT (with Richard House, PCCS, 2010), Childhood , Well-being and a therapeutic ethos (with Richard House, Karnac, 2009), 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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