Ordinary Ecstasy

John Rowan is the author of a number of books, including The Reality Game: A Guide to Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy, Discover Your Subpersonalities: Our Inner World and the People in it, The Transpersonal: Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Healing the Male Psyche: Therapy as Initiation. He has co-edited The Plural Self: Multiplicity in Everyday Life, with Mick Cooper. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling.

• Part One: What is Humanistic Psychology? Humanistic Psychology Is and Is Not Psychology: The Old Saybrook Conference; Eastern Thought; Science and Research. Humanistic Psychology Is and Is Not Optimistic. Maslow and Mahrer; Rogers and May; Centaur Consciousness. How Humanistic Psychology Holds the Contradictions: The Wilber Model; Authenticity; Charles Hampden-Turner; How Heidegger Got It Wrong. Part II: Applications of Humanistic Psychology. Counselling. Rollo May's contribution; Person-centred Counselling; Co-counselling; Dreams. Psychotherapy: Gestalt Therapy; Experiential Psychotherapy; Alvin Mahrer. Psychotherapy: Bodywork; Psychodrama; Primal Integration; Psychosynthesis. Groupwork: Encounter; The Humanistic-existential Group; Trust, Safety and Confrontation; Non-humanistic Groupwork; Self-help and the System. Education and Training: Rogers; Confluent Education; Experiential Learning; The School or College; The Wider Society. Organizational: Organization development; Hierarchy and Bureaucracy; Alternatives; Leadership; The Wider Scene; Taking Power; Transformational Management; Spiral Dynamics. Transpersonal: The Transpersonal Self; LSD; Levels of Consciousness; Personal and Social Implications; Paganism; Cross-cultural Work; Ken Wilber. Female/Male/Gay: Sexuality; Sex Roles; Constructivism and Some Ways Ahead. Part III: The Future of Humanistic Psychology. The Spread of Humanistic Psychology. Directions for the Self: The Personality: The Real Self: Multiple Levels of Consciousness: Humanistic Psychology and the Social Construction of Reality. Directions for Society: Phase one: The Universal Approach; Evolution or Revolution? Phase two: Questioning Patriarchy; Power and Change: Phase Three: An Integral Approach. Some Points on Theory and Research: Basic Orientation; Deficiency Motivation and Abundance Motivation; B-values and D-values; Humanistic uesearch; Critiques of Humanistic Psychology. Journals and Magazines. Some useful addresses.

Review from first edition: 'A unique book. It is undoubtedly a milestone in the dissemination of humanistic psychology theory and practice' - Self and Society