Product Description

The Second Edition of this best-selling book gives both trainee counselors and practitioners from other orientations a clear guide to the principles and techniques of psychosynthesis, and shows how they can be used effectively in the counseling setting. Following the course of te counseling process, the book shows step-by-step how psychosynthesis can help clients to gain a sense of connection with their inner selves and find meaning and purpose in their lives. The author explains the wide range of practical techniques available to practitioners and how to use them to meet the needs of different clients. The book is illustrated throughout with examples from practice, and includes an in-depth case history.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2458255 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

Many thanks Diana
Whitmore, Diana (2004) Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action, Third Edition, London, Sage Publications

This book is a `breath of fresh air'. The ease with which Diana writes, and the visual images she portrays, gives us a direction forward into our own healing and the immanent healing of our planet.

Being the 3rd edition, Diana has taken the time to bring this book of knowledge into the new millennium and its paradigm, fraught with difficulties requiring immediate assistance and enlightenment...and, enlighten us she does as she walks us through transcendence/immanence and the search for the lost Self, union with the greater whole, and the fostering of personal as well as transpersonal psychosynthesis.

This book is about Psychosynthesis Counselling and Diana gives us the natural assumptions, showing us the unfolding skills and interplay between the counsellor and the client. She showers us with the practical skills necessary for a therapeutic relationship and includes the space of true acceptance, a practice said to be extremely rare.

If you have ever found yourself lacking in the ability to communicate psychosynthesis to others you will enjoy the way this book expresses, with simplicity and ease of flow, the tenets of an effective psychosynthesis relationship.

This book is a `must read' for anyone who is willing to walk through this world consciously and interact in a meaningful way with other human beings. It is not a replacement for a good training center, but rather an enhancement and enrichment for those walking this path.