The Persons in Relation Perspective

1. Front Matter

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2. Defining The Persons in Relation Perspective

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Persons in Relation Perspective

      • Colin Kirkwood

      Pages 3-18

   3. The Persons in Relation Perspective

      • Colin Kirkwood

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   4. The Persons in Relation Perspective

      • Colin Kirkwood

      Pages 35-45

3. Exploring Dialogue

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Some Notes on Dialogue

      • Colin Kirkwood

      Pages 49-55

   3. Dialogue in its Larger Context

      • Colin Kirkwood

      Pages 57-62

4. Applying The Persons in Relation Perspective in Counselling and Psychotherapy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. The Role of Psychotherapy in The in-Patient Treatment of A Teenage Girl With Anorexia

      • Colin Kirkwood

      Pages 65-97

   3. Counselling as Personal and Social Action

      • Colin Kirkwood

      Pages 99-107

5. Applying The Persons in Relation Perspective Beyond the Couch

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Beyond The Couch

      • Colin Kirkwood

      Pages 111-121

   3. Robert Burns in The Counsellor’s Chair

      • Colin Kirkwood

      Pages 123-132

   4. Scotland as A Learning Society

      • Colin Kirkwood

      Pages 133-146

6. Applying The Persons in Relation Perspective in Adult Education and Adult Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Challenging Education, Creating Alliances

      • Colin Kirkwood

      Pages 149-163

   3. Freirean Approaches to Citizenship

      • Emilio Lucio-Villegas

      Pages 165-173

7. Back Matter

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• People are constituted by their relationships, past and present, inner and outer, conscious and unconscious. • People are agents who experience, know and act on the world. At the heart of your agency is your self: positive, puzzling, and problematic. Colin Kirkwood explores these and other ideas of John Macmurray, Ian Suttie, Ronald Fairbairn, John D Sutherland and Paulo Freire, and shows how they apply in counselling and psychotherapy, adult education, community and society. In today’s world, a set of ideas, attitudes and practices has taken hold, which emphasise the individual, self-centredness, pleasure-seeking, consumption, success and the accumulation of wealth and power. They are deeply harmful and need to be tackled. Colin demonstrates how these ideas affect us, and how they can be taken on and defeated, in a dialogical narrative of psychotherapy with a girl suffering from severe anorexia, written by the girl herself, her psychotherapist and one of her doctors. John Shemilt, Psychoanalyst and Consultant Psychiatrist, writes: Through his lucid, personalist account of the development of the Scottish tradition in psychoanalytic thinking, Colin Kirkwood provides an important 21st century commentary on the meaning of social context, the personal relationship and the experience of self in the process of counselling and psychotherapy. John McLeod, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of Abertay Dundee, writes: I highly recommend this book to all counsellors and psychotherapists who are interested in deepening their understanding of their work. Colin Kirkwood writes accessibly, with humour and grace, and draws on philosophical and cultural perspectives to offer a fresh appreciation of the meaning of adopting a relational approach to therapy. His work is grounded in everyday life experience, but at the same time views that experience as a microcosm of wider social and political currents. This book will be of interest to those involved incounselling, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis; psychiatry, psychology, nursing and general medical practice; social work and pastoral care; schooling, adult, community and higher education; ecology, theology and social geography; literature and philosophy; and politics, international and intercultural relations.

• adult education
• psychotherapy
• counselling

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