Pre-therapy: Reaching Contact Impaired Clients - Softcover

Garry Prouty; Dion Van Werde; Marlis Portner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1898059349 ISBN 13: 9781898059349

Publisher: PCCS Books, 2002

Synopsis

This book presents the most complete and up-to-date formulation of Pre-Therapy philosophy, theory and practice. Previously only available in German, this important work has been updated and translated. It has been virtually impossible to get hold of any substantial writing on Pre-Therapy in the UK and this book rectifies the situation. Developed by Garry Prouty and his associates over 30 years, Pre-Therapy is a method for anyone wanting to work with people whose ability to establish and maintain psychological contact is impaired temporarily or permanently, by illness or injury, whether of organic or psychological origin. Pre-Therapy has changed the practice of psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers, counsellors and carers in mainland Europe; now this book introduces its revolutionary ideas to English-speaking readers.

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Review:

Pre-Therapy offers me a way of supporting someone at the edge of therapeutic contact, ina way that is fully consistent with person centred therapy. It is deeply respectful of the client and an effective way of making therapy available to those who might otherwise be excluded. --Margaret Brown, Counsellor, East Suffolk MIND

About the Author:

Garry Prouty, trained by Eugene Gendlin, is the founder of Pre-Therapy. He has lectured in Europe and North America in clinics, hospitals and training organisations for the past 17 years. He recently delivered the Frieda Fromm-Reichman Memorial Lecture at the Washington School of Psychiatry. Prouty has served as editorial consultant on the boards of Psychotherapy, Theory, Research and Practice; The International Journal of Mental Imagery and Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies (the journal of the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling). His other books include Theoretical Evolutions in Person-Centered/Experiential Therapy: Applications to schizophrenic and retarded psychoses (Praeger, 1994). Dion Van Werde is a psychologist with a postgraduate specialisation in Client-Centered/Experiential Psychotherapy (K. U. Leuven). He is Pre-Therapy Staff Fellow of the Chicago Counseling and Psychotherapy Center, USA. He is coordinator of the Pre-Therapy International Network, based at Psychiatrisch Ziekenhuis, St Camillus, Gent, Belgium, where he uses Pre-Therapy as a ward model in residential care for people diagnosed as psychotic. Marlis Pörtner, worked in theatre and as an editor and translator, before becoming a psychotherapist. After the 'family years' she studied psychology and has worked for twenty years as a psychotherapist in her own practice. She has always had in her client caseload some people with special needs. She also works as a consultant and supervisor for several social services and is often invited by communities and homes to do workshops for the staff to introduce the concept of 'Trust and Understanding'. She has published a number of books, originally in German, that have been translated into several languages, and numerous articles for professional journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: PCCS Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1898059349
• ISBN 13: 9781898059349
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 191