Articles
Here are my published articles about the theory, practice, and experience of counselling.
Unpacking the congruence box (2011)
Self and Society were good enough to publish this exploration of 'congruence' in full. It is both a personal exploration and a further step towards putting 'person-centred' and 'focusing' back together as 'one thing'.
Focusing and the person-centred way (2011)
A brief and, I hope, accessible statement of a theoretical metaphor encompassing both person-centred practice and experiential focusing which appeared in Therapy Today and The Japanese Journal of Humanistic Psychology. (My thanks to Mako Hikasa for the translation and for her support.) This article is a kind of coda to the Dr Rogers articles listed below. I cannot believe it took me ten years: sometimes, the obvious isn't.
The 'Dr Rogers trilogy' offers my evolving understanding of (what I am coming to think of as) the reintegration of client centered therapy and experiential focusing. Thank you to Self and Society for publishing all three in the same journal.
The first of them (The Moral Umbrella) has a lot to say about environmental ethics. The other two are about counselling alone.
Dr Rogers and the moral umbrella (2006)
Dr Rogers and the moral umbrella (2006) PDF
Here is the latest version of my thoughts on session length.
This, I think, speaks best for itself.
'Whale notes' and 'Jonah' are reflections on my own counsellor training. They draw attention to things I still think worth discussing. 'Caesar' appeared in Therapy Today (2008) after I had spent several years as a training program director. Accompanying it was an editorial observation that my thoughts and experiences bear equally upon the fate of person-centred practice within the NHS. Given recent government interest in 'regulating' counselling through the Health Professions Council, that feels important.
Notes from inside the whale (2000)
Ecosophism: household wisdom, where the 'household' is this lovely blue-green planet and all that is upon it.
Here are two articles and a book chapter published in 2006.
The first article, '6 conditions', appeared in Therapy Today, and was intended for counsellors not necessarily familiar with environmental philosophy or person-centered theory. The second, ‘Pilgrim’, was written specifically for person-centered colleagues. The third is a chapter from Campbell Purton and Judy Moore eds. (2006) Spirituality and Counselling: Experiential and Theoretical Perspectives. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books. It is a PDF because that best retains the original formatting. Some people like what I did with the formatting, and some do not.
Take 6 core conditions... (2006)
Here are an earlier version of my thoughts on session length from 2005 plus the dissertation which grounded much of my subsequent work in philosophy and in counselling. The latter nearly found a publisher, but he backed away when his editorial board decided it was 'too far ahead of the game'. Maybe it still is, but the ideas it contains have made good sense to many subsequent cohorts of students. For academic writing, it is tolerably readable.
One size doesn't fit all (2005)
How big is the moral umbrella?
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May 2012 copyright Clive Perraton Mountford