John Rowan

With 'The Reality Game', John Rowan presents an introduction to the skills used in individual and group therapy. This third edition responds to the questions most commonly asked by students in these disciplines. In the years since it was first published, The Reality Game has become a classic text. For all those training and practising in humanistic and integrative psychotherapy it is an essential guide to good practice, and an excellent introduction to the skills used in individual and group therapy. This new edition has been updated to take into account changes in the field and John Rowan's own work, while still providing guidance on establishing and developing the relationship between counsellor and client, and covering: assessment; the initial interview; the opening session; aims; transference; resistance and supervision. With the student's needs always at the forefront, this extensively revised new edition responds to the questions most often asked by trainees in these disciplines, and includes discussions of ethics and new chapters on transpersonal psychology, and on dialogical self-theory. It will be a must read for psychotherapists and counsellors in practice and training especially those involved in humanistic and integrative psychotherapy Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Psychotherapy, counselling, coaching and personal growth -- Some negatives -- 2 Assessment or not -- The problem -- Labelling -- Assessment for therapy -- Alternative models -- 3 The initial interview -- First contact -- The initial interview -- Rapport -- Going wrong -- Listening -- Structure -- The therapist is not a rescuer -- Frequency and length of sessions -- Fees -- Boundaries -- 4 The opening sessions -- Awareness -- Empathy -- Genuineness -- Warmth -- Depth and surface -- Intersubjectivity -- 5 Aims -- Background contrasts 1. Psychotherapy, counselling, coaching and personal growth -- 2. Assessment or not -- 3. The initial interview -- 4. The opening sessions -- 5. Aims -- 6. Ways and means -- 7. The dialogical self and transference -- 8. Resistance -- 9. The process of development -- 10. Listening with the fourth ear -- 11. Research -- 12. Supervision -- 13. Ethics -- 14. The transpersonal. This book acts as a guide to good practice, and an introduction to the skills used in individual and group therapy