Integrative Person-Centred Counselling

Rick Murphy is a UKCP Psychotherapist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Northampton, UK.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsix1 Person Centred 1The Relationship Cure 2Humanising Mental Health 4Non- directive Therapy 6Humanising the Theory 8Positive Psychology 9Person- Centred Theory 12The Self- concept 14Conditions of Worth 16Summary 17Further Reading 182 Psychoanalysis 19Integrating Psychoanalysis 20Integration as Multi- description 23Wish Fulfilment 25Dream Interpretation 27Free Association 29Psychoanalysis as an Emotional Process 32The Freudian Mind 33Summary 34Further Reading 343 Defence Mechanisms 36The Stages of Process 36Technique Is Not a Dirty Word 38Clients with Greater Complexity 39Fishbowl Physics 42Psychological Defence Mechanisms 43Six Conditions for Change 46Transference 49Summary 52Further Reading 534 Jungian Analysis 55Jungian Psychology 56The Archetypes 56The Collective Unconscious 58The Persona 59Theory Should Humanise 62A Human Motif 64Introverts and Extroverts 67Summary 69Further Reading 705 Object Relations 71Good Object–Bad Object 73The Paranoid- Schizoid and Depressive Position 74Aggression and Grief 78Transitional Objects and Peekaboo 80Relations Between Objects 82Basic Fault and Primary Love 84The False Self 86Summary 87Further Reading 886 Attachment 89A Person- Centred Attachment Theory 90Relationship and Rupture 93Attachment Behaviours and Experiences 93Attachment Styles 95Internal Working Models 96Integrating Attachment Theory and Person- Centred Therapy 97Working with Avoidant Attachment 98Tolerating and Internalising Empathy 99Identifying and Communicating Experience 101Working with Ambivalent Attachment 102Therapist Congruence and Attunement 102Unconditional Positive Regard 103Fostering Exploratory Behaviours 104Working with Disorganised Attachment 105Dissociation 106The Role of the Body 107Noticing Positive Emotion 108Conclusion 108Further Reading 1097 Existential 111The Pillars of Existentialism 112Logotherapy: Finding Meaning Through Suffering and Choice 113Existential Socratic Dialogue 114Yalom’s Approach – The Existential Givens 117Death 117Freedom 119Isolation 121Meaninglessness 122Van Deurzen’s Approach – The Possibilities and Limitations of the Everyday 123Summary 127Further Reading 1278 Gestalt 129Feeling in the Moment 130Integrating Awareness into the Self 132The Hollow Man 135Completing the Gestalt 138Madeline’s Dream 141The Cycle of Experience 144Summary 145Further Reading 1469 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy 148A Word on Integration 148The Gloria Tapes 150Thought– Feeling– Behaviour Cycles 153Person- Centred CBT 154Core Beliefs 159Cognitive Distortions 162Summary 165Further Reading 16610 Systemic 167The Politics of Experience 168Interpersonal Patterns 170The Influence of the Family 173Family Development 175The Transitional Crisis 176Meaningful Change 179Meaning and Social Graces 180Narrative Theory 182Summary 183Further Reading 18611 Conclusion 187References 195Index 203