Table of Contents

Historial Perspectives. The History of Conditions One and Six by Pete Sanders and Gill Wyatt; Perceptual Variables of the Helping Relationship: A measuring system and its fruits by Godfrey Barrett-Lennard. Theory and Practice. Pre-Therapy: An essay in philosophical psychology by Garry Prouty. Pre-Therapy as a Theoretical System by Garry Prouty. The Practice of Pre-Therapy by Garry Prouty. Psychological Contact, Meaningful Process and Human Nature. A reformulation of Person-centred theory by Margaret S Warner. Psychological Contact as Dialectical Construction by William J Whelton & Leslie S Greenberg. Perception: The core element in person-centered and experiential psychotherapies by Shake G. Toukmanian. Basic requirements for Contact and Perception in Person-centred Therapy and the Implications for Clients with Learning Disabilites by Elisabeth Zinschitz. Contact in the Therapy of Trauma and Dissociation by Ton Coffeng. Prouty's Pre-Therapy and Contact-work with a braod Range of Persons' Pre-expressive Functioning by Dion Van Werde. The Wider Context and Links to Other Conditions. Presence: Im-media-te co-experiencing and co-responding by Peter F Schmid. Psychological Contact Through Person-Centered Expressive Arts by Shellee Davis. Sexual Orientation and Psychological Contact by Dominic Davies and Maggie Aykroyd. Madness and Mysticism in Perceiving the other: Toward a radical organismic, person-centred interpretation by Ivan Ellingham. In the Space Between by Rose Cameron. Sharing Life Therapy: A personal and extended way of being with clients by Regina Stamatiais. Contact and Perception: A beginning by Pete Sanders and Gill Wyatt.

About the Author

Gill Wyatt is a person-centred psychotherapist, supervisor and consultant. She has lectured on undergradute and postgraduate person-centred courses. Pete Sanders retired after 30 years practising as a counsellor, educator and clinical supervisor. He has written, co-written and edited 14 books on counselling, psychotherapy and mental health. He is a trustee of the Soteria Network UK

Reviews

- should be carefully considered by all serious followers of the person-centred approach. Rob Hooper, Open Studies Fellow in Counselling, Counselling Psychotherapy Journal, UK, October 2002.