PCCS Books Livres

A new analysis of the hearing voices experience outside the illness model, resulted in accepting and making sense of voices. This study of 50 stories forms the evidence for this successful new approach to working with voice hearers.

A plethora of new material on critical debates in mental health. It brings together nurses, survivors, psychiatrists, psychologists and academics to critique the dominant bio-genetic model of madness used by psychiatry, and to promote alternative ways to understand, approach and nurture recovery from severe distress.

Genuineness, transparency, authenticity and realness are the terms used to convey the concept of congruence. This book focuses on, and collects critical explorations of, this therapeutic condition. schovat popis

Leads the serious students to an appreciation of Unconditional Positive Regard. This title lets readers from various disciplines discover how contemporary person-centred therapists are thinking about, and working with, this 'core' condition. schovat popis

Features examples of their work with particular children and young people, aged from two to eighteen. This book describes how much the contributors have learnt from working with children and young people. It highlights the inherent political and systemic aspects of this work.

This 2nd edition once again throws into question taken-for-granted assumptions on which the professionalisation of psychotherapy and counselling are based. With a completely new editorial Introduction and Conclusion, this text is for those engaging with the politics of professionalisation for the first time, or wishing to refresh their thinking.

Brings together a collection of writings by authors who have participated in and with groups over a period of thirty years, using the person-centred approach.

For students and practitioners of the person-centred approach to counselling. Investigates and explores issues of race and culture in the person-centred approach.

Person-Centred Practice, the journal of the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA), was established in 1993 and published twice a year until 2004. With all but the latest issues out of print but in demand, PCCS Books published this selection of over thirty papers. schovat popis

A collection of mental health service user, carer and survivor narratives. Unusually, the narratives are unmediated hence there are no biomedical or psychotherapeutic commentaries to cpature, tame or sanitise the words of these 'the experts by experience'.