By Brian Thorne
Brian Thorne?s most recent e-book is probably going to reason anything of a furore within the counselling and psychotherapy global and extra really between person-centred practitioners and pastoral counsellors. ?The Mystical energy of Person-Centred treatment? takes the later paintings of Carl Rogers with the maximum seriousness and, therefore, strikes into unforeseen and maybe, for a few, dangerously debatable terrain. Rogers stumbled on in the direction of the tip of his lifestyles that he had significantly underestimated either the magical caliber of the healing technique and the ability of the person-centred method of supply entry to the religious size of expertise. Professor Thorne takes this idea extra and explores the consequences of concerning person-centred remedy as an primarily non secular self-discipline. the end result is a booklet which not just presents new and startling demanding situations for therapists of all orientations but in addition means that the person-centred means of being can have a huge contribution to make to the answer of a few of humanity?s probably intractable difficulties. it may charm not just to therapists but in addition to clergy and all these occupied with the non secular evolution of humanity. within the mild of the occasions of September eleventh 2001 and their aftermath this sort of publication couldn't come at a extra opportune time.
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I am reminded of the story of the American physician who would not respond to the needs of a person struck down by a potentially lethal heart attack on the airport tarmac because the unfortunate victim could not produce evidence of his medical insurance. Contracts, often 19 20 The Mystical Power of Person-centred Therapy designed to ensure justice and protect the vulnerable from abuse, can lead to a withering of the heart which sounds the likely death knell to the encounter which can heal. If, in the face of a weeping and desperate fellow human being, I am preoccupied with the necessity of explaining my therapeutic orientation and establishing a mutually acceptable contract for our work together, it may well be that I shall fail to be truly present and that he or she will not experience my preparedness to risk myself in a relationship which cannot be controlled or prescribed in advance.
The temptation for the therapist to ignore discordant inner voices or to refuse to acknowledge troublesome parts of himself or herself will be as great as it is for many clients. It is, after all, much simpler in the short run to filter out those tiresome aspects of the self which seem to impede clear-sightedness and a firm sense of direction. The spiritual discipline of the person-centred therapist should serve as a warning and as a defence against such wilful censoring. To encourage clients to be courageous in facing the seemingly conflicting aspects of their own being and to be equally attentive to them all will have about it a hollow ring if the therapist is intent on tuning out from certain of his or her own configurations because they are too inconvenient.
I am reminded of the story of the American physician who would not respond to the needs of a person struck down by a potentially lethal heart attack on the airport tarmac because the unfortunate victim could not produce evidence of his medical insurance. Contracts, often 19 20 The Mystical Power of Person-centred Therapy designed to ensure justice and protect the vulnerable from abuse, can lead to a withering of the heart which sounds the likely death knell to the encounter which can heal. If, in the face of a weeping and desperate fellow human being, I am preoccupied with the necessity of explaining my therapeutic orientation and establishing a mutually acceptable contract for our work together, it may well be that I shall fail to be truly present and that he or she will not experience my preparedness to risk myself in a relationship which cannot be controlled or prescribed in advance.
