Understudied to the point of being ignored, conditions one and six of Carl Rogers' 'Necessary and Sufficient' conditions are given due attention for the first time in this volume. Writers from three continents put psychological contact and the client's perception of the therapist not only on the theoretical map, but at the very centre of it. The result is a series of papers outlining genuine new theory and practice for all counsellors and therapists, not only those of a person-centred persuasion.
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.
