Eco-Centred Therapy

Offering a much-needed update of Rogerian theory and practice, and based on insights from cultural studies and ecopsychology, this book breaks new ground by questioning the relevance of certain ways of thinking about counselling and psychotherapy in the current planetary emergency.

Autorentext

Bernie Neville (1938-2021) was a De La Salle Brother before marrying and having a family, an academic, counsellor, and author with a deep interest and presence in person-centred psychology, Jungian psychology, and process philosophy. He was a Professor in the Faculty of Higher Education, Swinburne University of Technology, and at the Phoenix Institute, both in Melbourne, Australia.

Keith Tudor is Professor of Psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, where he is also co-lead of a Group for Research in the Psychological Therapies. He is an internationally-recognised author; his latest books include (with David Key) Ecotherapy: A Field Guide (Karnac, 2023).

Inhalt

Introduction Part 1: Ground 1. Taking Rogers seriously 2. The mind of things 3. We is: The ground of being 4. Person-centred psychology and therapy, ecopsychology and ecotherapy Part 2: Conditions 5. We cannot imagine without the other: Contact and difference in therapeutic relating 6. Crying for the loss of nature: Incongruence and alienation 7. Being anxiously congruent, and congruently anxious 8. Accepting hopelessness as a hopeful process 9. Five kinds and four modes of empathy 10. Experiencing and perceiving Part 3: Freedom - with Responsibility 1. Setting therapy free 12. Setting therapists free 13. Setting Bernie free: A eulogy