Full Description
This book represents the author's extensive experience in the field of psychotherapy, counselling, and mental health over four decades.
It focuses on the culture of psychotherapy and counselling in a coherent context, making the whole work more relevant and dialogic by inviting colleagues from South Asia to offer reflective comments on each chapter. This book brings focus to person-centred therapy and transactional analysis and takes a meta-view of the different elements that influence the internal and external worlds of both the therapist and the client. By including concepts of time, space, place, and person in therapy, the author not only make their use explicit but also contextualises them in and to different cultures. The book very succinctly describes life with its polarities of suffering and hope, anxieties and satisfaction within the uniqueness of the therapeutic relationship.
This volume is an outcome of extensive research, a wide range of experiences, and a synthesis of different therapies and minds. It is an excellent guide for therapists, both beginning and experienced. This book will be useful to students, researchers and teachers working in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, counselling, social work, and sociology. It will also be an invaluable companion to educationalists and practitioners working in these fields.
Contents
Introduction Part 1: Concepts 1. Space: The philosophy of Temenos (1999) 2. Time (2001, 2002, 2008) 3. Persons, polarities, and positions (2007) 4. Independence (2018) 5. Alienation (2018) Part 2: Cross-cultural encounter 6. Cultural conditions (1997) 7. 'Reading the air' (2016) 8. Family: The fa'asamoa (2017) 9. He tangata Tiriti tatou (2021) 10. On new ground (2020) 11. Bicultural encounter (2022) 12. War (2022) Part 3: Practice and theory 13. Co-creation (2019) 14. Teaching (2009) 15. Transactional analysis supervision or supervision analysed transactionally? (2021)
