Colin Feltham is Senior Lecturer in Counselling at Sheffield Hallam University, and a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling.

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

John Berridge UMIST

Peter Biddle Channel 4 TV

Mary Connor University College of Ripon and York St. John, York

Jennifer Cunningham Balivicar Child Centre, Glasgow

Derek Gale Private Practice

Jan Harvie-Clark Highgate Counselling Centre

Jeremy Holmes Consultant Psychiatrist / Psychotherapist

David Howe University of East Anglia

Tim Kendall University of Sheffield

Ann Macaskill Sheffield Hallam University

Norman Macaskill University of Leeds

Jim McLellan Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne

Richard Mowbray Primal Integration Programme, London

Tim Newton Birkbeck College, University of London

Marjorie Orr Private Practice

Ian Parker Bolton Institute

John Rowan Minster Centre London

Roger Scotford British False Memory Society

David Livingstone Smith International Society for Communicative Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Sheelagh Strawbridge Private Practice

Digby Tantam University of Sheffield

Brian Thorne University of East Anglia

Elizabeth Thornton Royal Society of Medicine

Fay Weldon Novelist

Sue Wheeler University of Birmingham

Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling - Colin Feltham
PART ONE: THEORETICAL ISSUES
Does the Unconscious Mind Really Exist? - E M Thornton
On the Existence of the Unconscious - Tim Kendall and Peter Speedwell
Primal Therapies - Stillborn Theories - Jennifer M Cunningham
The Trauma of Birth - John Rowan
False Memories - A Peripheral Issue? - Roger Scotford
Believing Patients - Majorie Orr
PART TWO: CLINICAL ISSUES
The Ineffectiveness of Psychotherapy - W M Epstein
It Has Been Amply Demonstrated that Psychotherapy Is Effective - Stephen Saunders
The Main Change Agent in Effective Psychotherapy Is Specific Technique and Skill - Albert Ellis
The Main Change Agent in Psychotherapy Is the Relationship between Therapist and Client - David Howe
Deconstructing Diagnosis - Ian Parker
Psychopathological Practice
Psychopathology Is a Reality and Psychodiagnosis Is a Necessity - Norman D Macaskill
The Limitations of Boundaries - Derek Gale
Maintaining Boundaries in Psychotherapy - David Livingstone Smith
A View from Evolutionary Psychoanalysis
PART THREE: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
Personal Therapy as a Training Requirement - Ann Macaskill
The Lack of Supporting Evidence
In Defence of Therapy for Training - Valerie Sinason
Becoming an Effective Psychotherapist or Counsellor - Jim McLellan
Are Training and Supervision Necessary?
Training and Supervision Make a Difference - Mary Connor
Against and beyond Core Theoretical Models - Colin Feltham
Training in a Core Theoretical Model Is Essential - Sue Wheeler
Professionalization of Therapy by Registration Is Unnecessary, Ill-Advised and Damaging - Richard Mowbray
Registration Benefits and Is Necessary to the Public and the Profession - Digby Tantam
Psychotherapy and Counselling Are Indistinguishable - Brian Thorne
There Are Real Differences between Psychotherapy and Counselling - Jan Harvie-Clarke
PART FOUR: SOCIAL ISSUES
Stress Discourse and Individualization - Tim Newton
Employee Assistance Programmes and Stress Counselling - John Berridge
At a Crossroads?
Psychotherapy and Counselling as Unproven, Overblown and Unconvincing - Alex Howard
Psychotherapy as Essential Care - Jeremy Holmes
Mind at the End of Its Tether - Fay Weldon
Counselling and Psychotherapy as Enabling and Empowering - Sheelagh Strawbridge