Description
Book SynopsisMichael Jacobs is a pioneer in the development of psychodynamic counselling. While his writing is praised for its lucidity in explaining difficult concepts, and it is well illustrated with case examples from his own work, he has rarely said much about his own history as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and counsellor.
In this personal account, concerned mainly with both his professional life as a therapist, writer and teacher and with the developments of counselling generally in Britain, in which he has played a major part, Jacobs presents his own past. It is one that surprisingly for so experienced a therapist, started with no formal training, but which has gone on to be an influence on the training of hundreds of counsellors and therapists.
Jacobs traces the development of BACP
Table of Contents
1 An Accidental Beginning
2 Changes of Direction
3 A strange new world
4 Early years in the British Association for Counselling
5 Developing opportunities for training
6 The right place, the right time
7 A finger in different pies
8 Working towards an ending
