Counselling and Spiritual Accompaniment

Brian Thorne is Co-founder and Professional Fellow at The Norwich Centre for Personal, Professional and Spiritual Development, Emeritus Professor of Counselling at the University of East Anglia, and a Lay Canon of Norwich Cathedral. Thorne is an internationally recognised figure in the field of person-centred therapy, and was a close colleague of Carl Rogers.

• Preface ix Acknowledgements xiiPart I From: Person-centred Counselling: Therapeutic and Spiritual Dimensions 1Introduction 3Chapter 1 In Search of Value and Meaning (1979) 8Chapter 2 Intimacy (1982) 17Chapter 3 The Quality of Tenderness (1985) 31Chapter 4 The Blessing and the Curse of Empathy (1989) 42Chapter 5 Carl Rogers and the Doctrine of Original Sin (1990) 61Chapter 6 Carl Rogers: The Legacy and the Challenge (1990) 72Chapter 7 The God Who Comes: Good Friday 1946 (1991) 86Part II From: Person-centred Counselling and Christian Spirituality 91Introduction 93Chapter 8 The Two Carls – Reflections on Jung and Rogers (1983) 98Chapter 9 The Personality of Jesus and the Process of Therapy (1991) 110Chapter 10 Spirituality and the Counsellor (1993) 117Chapter 11 Julian of Norwich: Radical psychotherapist (1993) 121Chapter 12 Jesus, the Incarnation of Holiness (Three Sermons, 1993) 134Chapter 13 Developing a Spiritual Discipline (1994) 146Chapter 14 The Counsellor as Prophet (1994) 150Chapter 15 Counselling and the Spiritual Journey (1997) 165Part III From: The Mystical Power of Person-Centred Therapy 179Introduction 181Chapter 16 The Human Person: Hope or Despair? 187Chapter 17 The Person-centred Therapist as Secular Priest and Prophet 197Chapter 18 The Spiritual Discipline of the Person-centred Therapist 209Chapter 19 The Use of Self 220Chapter 20 Intimacy and Sexuality 231Chapter 21 ‘Alive Alive’ 242Chapter 22 When the World Stopped Turning 255Part IV Ceasing to be a Therapist 265Prologue 267Chapter 23 The Heart’s Surrender (2005) 270Chapter 24 The Counsellor and the Lay Canon: Different Routes but the Same Journey (2007) 293Chapter 25 A Collision of Worlds (2009) 306Chapter 26 The Fully Human Jesus (2009) 312Chapter 27 Sacred Intimacy: Spiritual Accompaniment for our Times (2010) 329Chapter 28 In Correspondence (2010) 341Epilogue 343Index 345

“It is well written: clearly, humorously, honestly, and empathically. We owe Thorne an enormous debt for courageously opening his heart, mind, and soul to share the truth about a loving God walking with his people. It has been a privilege to review a book that amounts to his magnum opus, and I hope I have done it justice.”  (Church Times, 18 October 2013)“This is a ‘Brian Thorne reader’, and is to be commended to all therapists of all theoretical orientations.” (Therapy Today, September 2013)