October 2009

James Bugental - an Existential writer who only died last year.  For quick background its worth reading the wikipedia listing on him - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bugental

Then we've got a selection of reading -

• Sanders, P (2006) - The Tribes of The Person Centered Nation - chapter by mick cooper starts p112 the existential-humanistic approach ends on p115 at laing.
• Bugental, J (1992) - The Art of The Psychotherapist - chapter 9 - objectification-subjectivity ratio
• Bugental, J (1999) - Psychotherapy Isn't What You Think - on Google books (click on the book title to take you to the link - its the whole book online - we are reading p19 (starting near bottom of page - 'The Living Moment As Locus For Therapist Attention') to end p36

July 2009

The Actualising Tendency

• 20 pages in 3rd ed of PC Counselling in Action (chp 2 p19-30)
• an article by Art Bohart on 'The Actualising Person' with a whole section on self-actualisation in the Handbook of PC
  psychotherapy & Counselling (chp 5 p47-59)
• Plus there was definately stuff in that original paper Elaine gave us last time that'd be worth digging out because its his original propositions.

April 2009

Rogers 1959 paper and a chapter from the Congruence Book Chapter 12: J Bozarth 'Congruence, a special way of being'.

Jan 2009

Pauls chapter of the brief therapy book

November 2008

article on Debt Despair in the latest issue of Therapy Today

July 2008

Focusing

1. the final chapter and conclusion of Campbells Purton's Person-Centred Therapy: A Focusing Approach (2004, Palgrove)  I've copied them and given them to Lasy for multiple photocopying - contact her for a copy.

and also if you have the stamina for more...

2. Eugene Gendlin's article 'Three Assertions About the Body' (attached) or also available from the ~Gendlin Online Library at http://www.focusing.org/gendlin/

Jan 2008

From 'Therapy Today, October Ed': Pg4 "Should Counselling be Considered a Healthcare Profession?" by James Hansen
From 'Therapy Today, Nov Ed': pg 31 " Working with the medical Model" by Rachel Freeth
From 'Therapy Today, Nov Ed' pg 35 "Decoupling psychological therapies from the medical model" by Pete Sanders