The Mirror and the Hammer: Challenging Orthodoxies in Psychotherapeutic Thought - Hardcover

Ernesto Spinelli

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826452116 ISBN 13: 9780826452115

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group (Sd), 2001

Synopsis

The author raises issues surrounding therapeutic thought and practice and propounds his iconoclastic views on such subjects as refuting the unconscious, creativity, paranormal phenomena, sexuality, possession states, mind manipulation and brainwashing.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor Ernesto Spinelli has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential analysis as applied to psychology and psychotherapy and, more recently, the related arenas of coaching and conflict mediation. He is a UKCP registered existential psychotherapist, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) as well as an accredited executive coach and coaching supervisor. In 1999, Ernesto was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of psychotherapy, counselling and counselling psychology. Ernesto is Director of ES Associates, an organisation dedicated to the advancement of psychotherapy, coaching, and supervision through specialist seminars and training programmes. Professor Ernesto Spinelli has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential analysis as applied to psychology and psychotherapy and, more recently, the related arenas of coaching and conflict mediation. He is a UKCP registered existential psychotherapist, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) as well as an accredited executive coach and coaching supervisor. In 1999, Ernesto was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of psychotherapy, counselling and counselling psychology. Ernesto is Director of ES Associates, an organisation dedicated to the advancement of psychotherapy, coaching, and supervision through specialist seminars and training programmes.

Review:

`It is surely worth reading, not only by the author′s fellow psychiatrists, but also by psychologists in general′ - Contemporary Psychology

`I found this book a joy to read. Each chapter sets out the orthodoxy in question, then proceeds to explain lucidly the author′s difficulties with this orthodoxy and to suggest an alternative way of looking at the issues′ - Self and Society

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group (Sd)
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0826452116
• ISBN 13: 9780826452115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 187