The Art of Counselling and Psychotherapy - 9781855759466

Taylor & Francis

This book outlines a readily understandable, vital, and creative approach to the practice of counselling and psychotherapy. It shows how this practice can release the creativity most people have, and how they can improve the quality of their personal and social lives. > Counselling and psychotherapy are effective to the extent that they promote the creativity of clients and patients. Creativity is both a lifestyle and a health resource. A creative lifestyle implies learning to be the authors of our own lives and a creative approach to our inner lives and our social environment gives us coherence and authenticity. This book derives creative principles for counselling and psychotherapy from practical modern approaches in these fields, as well as from psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and new concepts of creativity itself. The creative attitude central to this represents an integrative basis for the differential application of various counselling and treatment techniques. Creative counse.