Barriers, Defences and Resistance

John Davy is a Chartered Counselling, Educational and Health Psychologist, UKCP registered Psychotherapist, and a Foundation Member of the BPS Register of Psychologists Specialising in Psychotherapy. He works for the NHS at Brookside Family Consultation Clinic in Cambridge. His interests include psychotherapy integration and interplay, family violence, narrative and therapy, and clinical supervision. Malcolm Cross is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, UKCP registered Psychotherapist and Director of Counselling Psychology Programmes at City University, London. His research interests are increasingly focused on understanding and learning from client's negative experiences in psychotherapy and counselling. His ongoing work is aimed at further developing 'best-practice,' paradoxically, though learning 'what not to do.'

• Series Editor's PrefaceInvitation and overviewStarting pointsBarriersDefencesResistanceDefensive concepts and professionalismReferencesIndex.