Books by Campbell Purton

This revised and extended second edition offers a comprehensive description of the history, theory and practice of focusing-oriented counselling - how and why it 'works', the debates around it, what it brings to the counsellor's primary mode of practice, and the evidence to support it.

Since its beginnings in the 1950s, the person-centred approach to therapy has developed in many ways. It throws light on the relationship between the various schools of therapy, and on the relationship between therapy and such areas as ethics and spirituality.