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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> I have known Charles O’Leary for forty years back to a time when we were both attached to the Center for Studies of the Person (CSP) in La Jolla California. The Resident Fellow of CSP was Dr Carl Rogers then seventy years of age. Carl Rogers was very interested in the relationship of partners and had just published the book Becoming Partners: Marriage and its Alternatives (1972). Charles O’Leary’s fascination with the lives of couples and families mirrors that of his mentor but his books do much more in actually helping practitioners to work as couple and family ther- apists. In that regard the present book goes much further than his earlier introductory text Counselling Couples and Families: A Person-Centred Approach (1999) in its depth of analysis of the person-centred orientation as that applies to couple and family work. It also offers a more compre- hensive review of theory and research from other family therapy tradi- tions. The person-centred specialist like therapists of any tradition values a range of theory because that widens the therapist’s imagination in the therapy room. For example it would be inconceivable for a person-centred couple and family therapist to fail to have an apprecia- tion of the systemic nature of family interaction. Similarly a therapist whose primary influence is Systems Theory would know that the sensi- tivity of therapeutic interventions is much increased if they are founded in the particular quality of empathy and valuing of the client that is fundamental for the person-centred practitioner. (LL)