The Mirror Crack'd: When Good Enough Therapy Goes Wrong and Other Cautionary Tales for Humanistic Practitioners - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855754231 ISBN 13: 9781855754232

Publisher: Karnac Books, 2007

Synopsis

This book is as a wake-up call to take seriously the climate in which mental health professionals practice in which complaints and civil actions against psychotherapists and counsellors are on the increase and to sharpen assessment skills accordingly. It is also desgined to help professionals to think about the 'therapeutic frame' and what can happen to both the practitioner and the client when it is broken and finally to give voice to some colleagues who have been involved in the area of complaints in the hope that you and the organisations under whose codes of ethics you practice will take more of an interest in making those codes and frameworks more relevant to the intricacies of the therapeutic relationship. The message is simple: injuries that happen in relationship need to be addressed in relationship.

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About the Author

Anne Kearns trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the USA and in Transactional Analysis and Gestalt Therapy in the UK. She is a former Chair and Teaching and Supervising member of the Gestalt Psychotherapy and Training Institute. In 1999 she founded The Growing Edge, a consortium of psychotherapists and other professionals who are interested in the development of the profession of psychotherapy through post-qualification training and consultation. Anne has an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy and was Course Director of the training in Integrative Group Therapy at the Metanoia Institute from 1994-96 and a Primary Tutor on the Integrative Psychotherapy training from 1994-1999.

Edition details

• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1855754231
• ISBN 13: 9781855754232
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Kearns Anne