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Critical Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy examines the critical debates around key topics in counselling and psychotherapy. In nine sections including Everyday Counselling Practice, Training and Curriculum Issues, and Counselling, Society and Culture, Colin Feltham explores and cross-references 60 provocative questions central to counselling training and practice.
Ranging from more mainstream subjects like unconditional positive regard, ethics and supervision to broader social or philosophical issues such as employment concerns and the debate on assisted suicide, entries include: Why have we focused on core theoretical models?; What are the pros and cons of short-term, time-limited counselling?; What's wrong with CBT?; Where is research taking us?; Is statutory regulation a good and inevitable development?; Are there limits to personal change in counselling?
Each section includes questions for reflection, case studies and student exercises. This comprehensive, student-friendly text is a useful resource for lecturers to stimulate seminar discussion, and for all trainees wishing to write essays or generally develop their critical thinking in counselling and psychotherapy.
Is the Human Species Anthropathological?
Is the Human Species Anthropathological?
I need to explain immediately what this means and how it is relevant to counselling. Anthropathology refers to ‘the sickness of humankind’. It draws together all our dysfunctional traits at a macro-level and argues that these pervade our lives both individually and collectively. At our visible worst, we are selfish, war-mongering, greedy, deceptive, environmentally destructive and seemingly incapable of learning from our past mistakes. At collective and individual levels we are addicted to many counter-productive traditions and habits. Vast inequalities in wealth distribution reflect our greed, rationalized in capitalism. Lies are structurally necessary in a capitalist society (for example, in sales, advertising, public relations) and also in everyday interpersonal relations. Arguably our major institutions are not ...
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