The Mystical Power of Person-Centred Therapy: Hope Beyond DespairISBN: 978-1-86156-328-6
Paperback
122 pages
May 2002
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Brian Thorne?s latest book is likely to cause something of a furore
in the counselling and psychotherapy world and more particularly
among person-centred practitioners and pastoral counsellors. ?The
Mystical Power of Person-Centred Therapy? takes the later work of
Carl Rogers with the utmost seriousness and, as a result, moves
into unexpected and perhaps, for some, dangerously controversial
terrain. Rogers discovered towards the end of his life that he had
greatly underestimated both the mystical quality of the therapeutic
process and the power of the person-centred approach to give access
to the spiritual dimension of experience. Professor Thorne takes
this concept further and explores the implications of regarding
person-centred therapy as an essentially spiritual discipline. The
outcome is a book which not only provides new and startling
challenges for therapists of all orientations but also suggests
that the person-centred way of being may have a major contribution
to make to the resolution of some of humanity?s seemingly
intractable problems. It should appeal not only to therapists but
also to clergy and all those concerned with the spiritual evolution
of humanity. In the light of the events of September 11th 2001 and
their aftermath such a book could not come at a more opportune
time.