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The Tribes of the Person-Centred Nation, 2nd Edition: an introduction to the schools of therapy related to the person-centred approach

The Tribes of the Person-Centred Nation, 2nd Edition: an introduction to the schools of therapy related to the person-centred approach

Pete Sanders
Mick Cooper
Tony Merry
Campbell Purton
Nick Baker
Richard Worsley

ISBN 978 1 906254 55 1 (2012)

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This book has a mission – to gather the tribes of the person-centred nation for dialogue; to discover common ground and debate differences; to celebrate the fact that we are, as Margaret Warner declared, ‘one nation, many tribes’.

This popular, widely used set-text has been revised and considerably extended for both students and practitioners.

• New to this edition are

  •  Revised contributions from Nick Baker, Mick Cooper, Campbell Purton and Richard Worsley
  •  A chapter on Emotion Focused Therapy by Prof Robert Elliott
  •  An entire section on ‘new developments’ comprising:  Person-Centred Expressive Therapies (Dinah Brown),  Pre-Therapy (Pete Sanders),  Relational Depth (Rosanne Knox), Counselling for Depression (Andy Hill)

• The 2012 edition of Tribes is the first UK student text to include coverage of this comprehensive range of person-centred and experiential therapies and approaches
 

Preface 
       
The Contributors

 Introduction  Pete Sanders     
 

Chapter 1  History of Client-Centred Therapy and the Person-Centred Approach:

                   events, dates and ideas  Pete Sanders

Chapter 2  Classical Client-Centred Therapy  Tony Merry

Chapter 3  Focusing-Oriented Therapy  Campbell Purton

Chapter 4  Experiential Person-Centred Therapy  Nick Baker

Chapter 5  Emotion-Focused Therapy Robert Elliott

Chapter 6  Existentially-informed Person-Centred Therapy  Mick Cooper

Chapter 7  Integrating with integrity  Richard Worsley

Chapter 8  New developments:       
                  Person-Centred Expressive Therapies – Dinah Brown
                  Pre-therapy – Pete Sanders
                  Relational Depth – Rosanne Knox
                  Counselling for Depression – Andy Hill

Appendix Mapping person-centred approaches to counselling and psychotherapy  Pete Sanders

No other book shows quite the range and depth of PCE psychotherapies in a single volume — a brilliant book. David Murphy, University of Nottingham

Comprehensive references and links illuminate descriptions of the many developments that continue to emerge from client-centred therapy. Kate Hayes, MBACP, Accred

Pete Sanders

Pete Sanders

Pete Sanders spent over 30 years practising as a counsellor, educator and clinical supervisor. He has written, co-written and edited numerous books, chapters and papers on many aspects of counselling, psychotherapy and mental health. He continues to have active interest in developing person-centred theory, the politics of counselling and psychotherapy, and the demedicalisation of distress. He has given keynote addresses at several UK and European conferences and also offers workshops in a few areas that continue to interest him. He is a pre-therapy/contact work trainer and trustee of the Soteria Network UK.  Follow Pete Sanders at http://twitter.com/@PeteSanders51

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Mick Cooper

Mick Cooper

Mick Cooper is a Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton, and a practising counselling psychologist. Mick is author of a range of texts on person-centred, existential and pluralistic approaches to counselling and psychotherapy. His principal research interests are counselling in schools and the experience of relational depth.

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Tony Merry

Tony Merry

Tony Merry (1948–2004) was Reader in Psychology at the University of East London and taught on postgraduate and undergraduate courses in counselling and counselling psychology. He was author of several books and articles on counselling, including Learning and Being in Person-Centred Counselling — see below. He co-founded the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA) in 1989 and was editor of the BAPCA journal Person-Centred Practice until his untimely death in August 2004. He contributed to workshops and other person-centred events in Europe, including several with Carl Rogers in England, Ireland and Hungary in the 1980s.

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Campbell Purton

Campbell Purton

Campbell Purton is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Counselling Studies at the University of East Anglia, where he directs the Postgraduate Diploma/MA in Focusing and Experiential Psychotherapy. He is also a counsellor at the University Counselling Service. He has been a lecturer in philosophy, a therapist in private practice, and a director of the UEA Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling. He has published many articles in the areas of counselling, philosophy and Buddhist studies, and is the author of Person-Centred Counselling: The Focusing-Oriented Approach (Palgrave, 2004) and The Focusing-Oriented Counselling Primer (PCCS Books, 2007).

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Nick Baker

Nick Baker

Nick Baker retired as Senior Lecturer in Counselling at St Martin’s College, Lancaster in August 2007. He worked for 20 years as a counsellor educator with a special interest in experiential approaches to psychotherapy. He has published book chapters (including a chapter in The Tribes of the Person-Centred Nation), papers and articles on counselling and psychotherapy as well as his book for PCCS below.

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Richard Worsley

Richard Worsley

Richard Worsley has worked for a number of years as a person-centred counsellor, supervisor and trainer. He is also an Anglican priest. He has a particular interests in process in therapy, in spirituality, in philosophy and therapy, and in therapeutic groups. Richard worked for ten years at the University of Warwick as a staff and student counsellor. In experiencing high-volume work with people with a wide range of presenting distress, he is even more convinced that people are unique, and process their experience in unique and creative ways. He has since 2013 worked as a priest in a rural benefice.

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