Description
Book SynopsisDeveloped by Garry Prouty and his associates over a period of 30 years, Pre-Therapy is a method for anyone wanting to work with people whose ability to establish and maintain psychological contact is imparied temporarily or permanently, by illness or injury, whether organic or psychological in origin. This book presents the most complete and up-to-date formulation of Pre-Therapy philosophy, theory and practice. Applications of the method with the most difficult client groups - those described with severe psychosis and others with profound learning disabilites - are illustrated by all three authors, with detailed accounts from Dion Van Werde and Marlis Portner. Pre-Therapy has changed the practice of psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers, counsellors and carers in mainland Europe; now this book introduces its revolutionary ideas to English-speaking readers.
Table of ContentsPart 1. Garry Prouty: The foundations of Pre-Therapy. Formative Experiences; Pre-Therapy and Existential Phenomenology; The Theroy of Pre-Therapy; The Practice of Pre-Therapy; Pre-Symbolic Theory; Newer Applications of Pre-Therapy; Further Thoughts. Part 2. Dion Van Werde: Pre-Therapy Applied on a Psychiatric Ward. Missions Statements; A Contact Milieu; Afterthoughts. Part 3. Marlis Portner: Pre-Therapy in Europe. The Pre-Therapy Project in Sint-Amandus; Futher Evolutions of Pre-Therapy; Concluding Thoughts.
