Main description:

Brings together an international line-up of contributors

Contents:

Introduction Manu Bazzano

Tribute to Fedor E. Vasilyuk Tatiana Karyagina and Fedor Shankov

Part I Some kinds of love: person-centred therapy and the relational dimension

Chapter 1 Therapy as an accident waiting to happen Julie Webb

Chapter 2 The psychotherapeutic encounter as a political act of micro-multitude Claudio Rud

Chapter 3 Beauty and the Cyborg Manu Bazzano

Chapter 4 Walking backwards towards the future: reclaiming the radical roots - and future - of person-centred therapy Keith Tutor

Chapter 5 Ethics and the person-centered approach: a dialogue with radical alterity Emanuel Meireles Vieira and Francisco Pablo Huascar Aragao Pinheiro

Part II The politics of experience

Chapter 6 Dialectics of person and experiencing Tatiana Karyagina and Fedor E. Vasilyuk

Chapter 7 Actualizing tendency, organismic wisdom and understanding the world Salvador Moreno-Lopez

Chapter 8 Person-centred approach as discursivity and person-centred therapy as heterotopic practice Pavlos Zarogiannis

Chapter 9 Client-centered: an ethical therapy Bert Rice and Kathryn A. Moon

Chapter 10 Experiencing and the person-centred approach Nikolaos Kypriotakis

Chapter 11 Experiential-existential psychotherapy: deepening existence, engaging with life Siebrecht Vanhooren

Part III Person-centred therapy and spirituality

Chapter 12 From the scientific to the mystical in the work of Carl Rogers Michael Sivori

Chapter 13 Living from the 'formative tendency': 'cosmic congruence' Judy Moore

Chapter 14"A kind of liking which has strength" (Carl Rogers): does person-centred therapy facilitate through love? Peter F. Schmid

Part IV Person-centred learning and training

Chapter 15 Enter centre stage, the case study... Deborah A. Lee

Chapter 16 Sheep of tomorrow Manu Bazzano

Chapter 17 What do I know and how do I know it?: theories of knowledge and the person-centred approach Dot Clark

Chapter 18 The empathor's new clothes: when person-centered practices and evidence-based claims collide Blake Griffin Edwards

Part V Challenging some aspects of person-centred practice

Chapter 19 Challenging snoopervision: how can person-centered practitioners offer new alternatives to the fracturing of the person in the supervision relationship? Zoe Krupka

Chapter 20 Re-visioning person-centred research Jo Hilton and Seamus Prior

Chapter 21 Psychopathology and the future of person-centred therapy Andrew Schiller

Chapter 22 Presence: the fourth condition Sarton Weinraub

Chapter 23 A place in which everything can go Darran Biles

Chapter 24 A person-centred political critique of current discourses in post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth Deborah A. Lee