What are the limits for counsellors and psychotherapists when working with people suffering from psychosis?
“Existentialism is not a humanism”:- Discuss the relationship between humanism and existentialism in counselling, commenting on the extent to which you agree with Sartre that “Existentialism IS a humanism”!
To what extent do social constructionist and ‘post-modern’ approaches to counselling and psychotherapy manage to resist the ‘individualism’ of more traditional models?
Does the scientific and rational underpinning of CBT make it incompatible with helping people manage the clashes of values and ethics that are often the causes of distress?
Is the professionalization of counselling undermining informal helping communities?
As most of you understand by now, my only interest in the psychodynamic model is the way in which it raises difficult ethical issues which I believe apply to the whole counselling and psychotherapy movement - none of us is able to unthink all we have learned about Freud.
However I know some of you are enthusiastic advocates of the psychodynamic model so for general interest I would like to recommend "An Intdroduction to Psychodynamic Counselling" by Laurence Spurling (Palgrave 2009 2nd edition) and here is an extract to give you flavour of the level at which it is written:
K suggested these links might be of interest, vids about bipolar disorder - I havent had time to watch them and so cannot endorse them properly (there is definitely some deeply problematic material in here!) but forward them in case any of you are interested:
Below are 3 parts of the short movie that I wish to share. 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSvKByYOPdo&feature=channel 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Xwdvb6FXM&feature=channel 3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4isvbxN-wGo&feature=related
