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A Psychodynamic Approach to Suicide: A Critical and Selective Review.
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Lees, John; Stimpson, Quentin – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2002
This paper begins by critically exploring Freudian and post-Freudian understandings of suicide while drawing several examples from clinical practice. The paper then reconsiders psychodynamic approaches to suicidal clients from a Levinasian ethical position. Suggests that suicide may be a logical part of what it is to be human, rather than an…
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Mental Disorders
What Can Philosophy Offer Counselling and Psychotherapy?
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Howard, Alex – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2000
Examines potential relationships to explore between counseling and philosophy. Posits that philosophy already provides the ground on which counseling stands, and, therefore, if counseling is to strengthen its foundations, it needs to examine where it currently locates itself intellectually, ethically, and culturally. (Contains 11 references.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, Foreign Countries, Philosophy, Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy in the United Kingdom: Past, Present and Future.
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Jacobs, Michael – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2000
Traces the history of psychological therapies, including behavior therapy and humanistic therapies that challenged the initially dominant psychoanalytic model. Examines the development of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and the British Confederation of Psychotherapists, as well as other developments, such as psychotherapeutic studies…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Counseling Theories, Counselor Training, Foreign Countries
Therapy and the Challenge of Evil.
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Spinelli, Ernesto – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2000
Expresses the author's personal view of evil as considered by psychotherapeutic theories. Challenges the psychotherapeutic tendency to avoid the moral and existential dimensions of evil via the transformative language of psychopathology that allows practitioners to rely upon metaphors of disease or immaturity. Presents an inter-psychic viewpoint…
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, Foreign Countries, Metaphors, Moral Values
Guidance in the United Kingdom: Past, Present and Future.
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Watts, A. G.; Kidd, Jennifer M. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2000
Outlines the development of guidance in the United Kingdom. Reviews the relationship between two distinct but related traditions: the development of the practice of career guidance; and the development of guidance as an educational concept. Examines conceptual issues and discusses challenges for guidance in the new millennium in relation both to…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Counseling Theories, Foreign Countries, Policy
Is There Anybody There? A Psychodynamic View of Panic Attack.
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Rizq, Rosemary – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2002
Presents a process analysis of a psychodynamic intervention for a client with panic attacks. Discusses how a psychodynamic understanding of the complex etiology of the client's panic attacks that ultimately produced improved coping skills and a subjective sense of improvement for her. Process analysis is used to illustrate the theoretical base,…
Descriptors: Coping, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Foreign Countries