Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling

Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling/PART ONE: THEORETICAL ISSUES/Does the Unconscious Mind Really Exist?/On the Existence of the Unconscious/Primal Therapies - Stillborn Theories/The Trauma of Birth/False Memories - A Peripheral Issue?/Believing Patients/PART TWO: CLINICAL ISSUES/The Ineffectiveness of Psychotherapy/It Has Been Amply Demonstrated that Psychotherapy Is Effective/The Main Change Agent in Effective Psychotherapy Is Specific Technique and Skill/The Main Change Agent in Psychotherapy Is the Relationship between Therapist and Client/Deconstructing Diagnosis/Psychopathological Practice/Psychopathology Is a Reality and Psychodiagnosis Is a Necessity/The Limitations of Boundaries/Maintaining Boundaries in Psychotherapy/A View from Evolutionary Psychoanalysis/PART THREE: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES/Personal Therapy as a Training Requirement/The Lack of Supporting Evidence/In Defence of Therapy for Training/Becoming an Effective Psychotherapist or Counsellor/Are Training and Supervision Necessary?/Training and Supervision Make a Difference/Against and beyond Core Theoretical Models/Training in a Core Theoretical Model Is Essential/Professionalization of Therapy by Registration Is Unnecessary Ill-Advised and Damaging/Registration Benefits and Is Necessary to the Public and the Profession/Psychotherapy and Counselling Are Indistinguishable/There Are Real Differences between Psychotherapy and Counselling/PART FOUR: SOCIAL ISSUES/Stress Discourse and Individualization/Employee Assistance Programmes and Stress Counselling/At a Crossroads?/Psychotherapy and Counselling as Unproven Overblown and Unconvincing/Psychotherapy as Essential Care/Mind at the End of Its Tether/Counselling and Psychotherapy as Enabling and Empowering