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 Arguments for Pluralism edited by published October 1997 348pp ISBN 1-898059-17-9 
0000Can psychotherapy and counselling be reduced to a set of objective expert skills? 0000Is a core theoretical model necessary - or possible? 0000What model of accountability is truly congruent with the values of therapeutic work? 0000Can effective practitionership be 'trained in'? 0000Can therapy ever be made 'safe'? 0000Can psychotherapy and counselling ever constitute plausible 'professions'? 00By raising these and other challenges to conventional thinking, the contributors, many of them prominent in the field, throw into question many of the most taken-for-granted assumptions on which the 'professionalisation' and commodification of psychotherapy and counselling are based. Their essays display the creative pluralism and passionate vitality which typify the best aspects of therapeutic work. 00 IMPLAUSIBLE PROFESSIONS is essential reading for anyone involved in the therapeutic field today; because no one, from the most senior trainer to the newest trainee, can avoid taking a position on these fundamental questions about the place of therapy and counselling in the post modern world. £14 post free from: PCCS Books Llangarron,
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