Table of Contents

PART I: THE TROUBLE 1. The Effectiveness of Psychotherapy 2. Theories and Common Sense 3. Historical Prologue: Behaviourism and Behaviour Therapy 4. Person-Centred Therapy 5. Psychodynamic Therapy 6. Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy 7. Process-Experiential/ Emotion-Focused Therapy 8. Existential Therapy 9. Neuroscience PART II: STARTING AGAIN 10. The Troubled Client 11. Psychotherapy Integration 12. Implications for Practice and Training

Promotional Information

Campbell Purton has managed to explain, where others have failed, how it is that psychotherapy of many theoretical varieties can and actually does work. He develops an adequate understanding of psychotherapy, a last: an understanding that is not itself a theory.' - Dr. Rupert Read, Reader in Philosophy, School of Philosophy, Politics and Languages.

About the Author

Campbell Purton is Associate Tutor at the Centre for Counselling Studies, University of East Anglia. He is the author of Person-Centred Therapy: The Focusing-Oriented Approach (2004, Palgrave) and The Focusing-Oriented Primer (2007, PCCS Books).

Reviews

'Campbell Purton has managed to explain, where others have failed, how it is that psychotherapy of many theoretical varieties can and actually does work. He develops an adequate understanding of psychotherapy, a last: an understanding that is not itself a theory.' - Dr. Rupert Read, Reader in Philosophy, School of Philosophy, Politics and Languages.