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Transformation in Troubled Times: Re-Vision's Soulful Approach to Therapeutic Work
Contributor(s): Robertson, Chris (Editor), Sarah, Van Gogh (Editor)
ISBN: 1912698021     ISBN-13: 9781912698028
Publisher: Kaminn Media Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $26.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Movements - Humanistic
- Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.63 lbs) 210 pages
 
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To celebrate its 30 years of pioneering work in the fields of counselling and psychotherapy training, the Re-Vision Centre for Transpersonal & Integrative Therapy has brought together a selection of writing by practitioners and teachers who have worked at the heart of the organization.


The chapters address a social and cultural crisis which, at this point in the history of our planet, needs new ways of looking at therapy and how it relates to the world beyond the consulting room. Just as 'the personal is the political' was a way of seeing individual issues within the context of a wider political field, so we now need to see that soul has a different kind of agency from that of ego - one that is both internal and external, individual and cultural. The world may have lost connection with soul in its obsession with merchandise and control, but soul has not lost connection with us. These chapters offer an integrative perspective that both gives a place to the troubles of the modern world and also develops a well-tuned craft to firstly attend to our painful wounds and ultimately transform their bitterness into the salt of wisdom.


This book is a compelling work for psychotherapists, counsellors, trainees, and anyone interested in how psychotherapy influences and is influenced by the state of the planet, by imagination and by the reality of how politics impact on our daily lives.

Contributor Bio(s): Robertson, Chris: - Chris Robertson BSc, MPhil, has been a psychotherapist and trainer since 1978. He studied meditation in India, humanistic group work, child psychotherapy, psychosynthesis and family therapy. He co-founded Re-Vision in 1988 from which he is now retired. Since 2018, he has been the chair of the Climate Psychology Alliance. He contributed the chapter 'Dangerous Margins' to the anthology Vital Signs (Karnac, 2012); is co-author of Emotions and Needs (OUP, 2002); and authored several articles including 'Hungry Ghosts: Psychotherapy, control and the winds of homecoming' (Self & Society 2014). He co-edited the Psychotherapist (2016: 63) on Climate Change, Despair and Radical Hope.Sarah, Van Gogh: - Sarah Van Gogh has worked as a counsellor in private practice since 2001, and is on the training staff at Re-Vision. She was a counsellor and a trainer for many years at Survivors UK, the London charity that supports men who have experienced sexual abuse. Before training as a counsellor, Sarah gained a degree in English from Cambridge University, and then worked in the fields of theatre, community health and adult education. She has written about the connection between therapy and the expressive arts in a number of journals, and is the author of Helping Male Survivors of Sexual Violation to Recover, published by Jessica Kingsley.