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Shouldn't I be feeling better by now? : client views of therapy
2006
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For students, practitioners, and clients, this collection of 16 essays features the voices of clients--from Britain, Europe, Australia, and North America--as well as therapists, who discuss negative experiences with counseling. The first two sections focus on client views, which describe situations of transference, failed therapy, the power of suggestion in sessions, informed consent, hypnotherapy, dependence, the client's role, psychoanalysis, and the effects of language and reality. In the last section, clients and therapists present solutions. The bibliography is annotated. Bates is a freelance counselor and is Managing Editor of the journal ipnosis, which contains a column of client perspectives. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - (Book News)

Around one in four clients of counselling and therapy either deteriorate in treatment or show no signs of recovery. Why does therapy fail this significant proportion of vulnerable people and what can be done about it? This ground-breaking volume assembles the first ever collection of client critiques of therapy as a way of kick-starting an urgently needed debate. Including contributions from a range of internationally respected therapists, the book identifies areas of concern and seeks to provide constructive solutions for the future.
Nominated for the Mind Book of the Year Award 2006 - (Eloquence)

Around one in four clients of counselling and therapy either deteriorate in treatment or show no signs of recovery. Why does therapy fail this significant proportion of vulnerable people and what can be done about it? This ground-breaking volume assembles the first ever collection of client critiques of therapy as a way of kick-starting an urgently needed debate. Including contributions from a range of internationally respected therapists, the book identifies areas of concern and seeks to provide constructive solutions for the future.

Nominated for the Mind Book of the Year Award 2006

- (McMillan Palgrave)

Author Biography

YVONNE BATES is a Freelance Counsellor working within the Alexander Group. Previous works include Ethically Challenged Professions: Enabling Innovation and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Counselling (co-edited with Richard House, 2003). She is Managing Editor of Ipnosis - an independent journal for practitioners. - (Eloquence)

YVONNE BATES is a Freelance Counsellor working within the Alexander Group. Previous works include Ethically Challenged Professions: Enabling Innovation and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Counselling (co-edited with Richard House, 2003). She is Managing Editor of Ipnosis - an independent journal for practitioners.
YVONNE BATES is a Freelance Counsellor working within the Alexander Group. Previous works include Ethically Challenged Professions: Enabling Innovation and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Counselling (co-edited with Richard House, 2003). She is Managing Editor of Ipnosis - an independent journal for practitioners.

- (McMillan Palgrave)

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements and Dedication vii
Preface viii
Yvonne Bates
Introduction 1(4)
Virginia Ironside
Part I Client Stories
5(72)
Love in an Estate of Bondage
7(13)
Sylvia Wilde
A Silent Self
20(12)
Jo Hare
Twenty Years Ago
32(7)
Anthony Smith
An Adventure in Hypnotherapy
39(14)
Natalie Simpson
Her Mistake Cost Me Dearly: Emotional Abuse in Psychotherapy
53(10)
Marje Schepisi
The Client Says Not
63(14)
Marie Hellewell
Part II Practice Issues
77(68)
A Digest of Anne France's Consuming Psychotherapy
79(11)
Richard House
Untwining the Transference
90(8)
Natalie Simpson
Why Practise Informed Consent? One Client's Perspective
98(8)
Robin Dean
Alice's Adventures in Psychoanalysis
106(8)
Alessandra de Paula
Anti-therapy
114(9)
Virginia Ironside
Anna Sands on Language, Reality and Amorality
123(13)
Summary of the Issues
136(9)
Part III Working Towards Solutions
145(44)
Forum of Voices: Rising to the Challenge
147(19)
A Dialogue Between a Client and a Psychotherapist
166(18)
Rosie Alexander
Michael Jacobs
Conclusion: Welcoming the Client-Voice Movement
184(5)
Richard House
Afterword 189(4)
Fay Weldon
Appendix: Research into the Efficacy of Counselling and Psychotherapy and its Relevance to Subjective Reports 193(7)
Suggested Further Reading 200(5)
Index 205

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