Persona recommended texts for Module 2

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Persona recommended texts: Key texts highlighted in bold

Barrett-Lennard, G. (1998). Carl Rogers' Helping System: Journey and Substance. London: Sage.
Beresford, P (2010) A Straight-Talking Introduction to Being a Mental Health Service User. PCCS Books
Cooper, M. (2003). Between freedom and despair: existential challenges and contributions to person-centered and experiential therapy. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 2, 43-56.
Freeth, R. (2007) Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health Care: Radcliffe Publishing
Johnstone, L. (2014) A Straight-Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis. PCCS Books
Joseph, J & Worsely, R. (2005) Person-Centred Psychopathology – a positive Psychology of Mental Health Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books
Lambers, E. (2003). The person-centred perspective on psychopathology: In D. Mearns, Developing Person-Centred Counselling (2nd ed) (pp 103-119). London: Sage.
Mearns, D. (1997). Person-Centred Counselling Training. London: Sage (particularly chapter 9).
Mearns, D. (1999). Person-centred therapy with Configurations of Self. Counselling 10, 125-130.
Mearns, D. & Thorne, B. (2000) Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice. London: Sage. (Particularly Chapters 6, 7 and 9).
Mearns, D. (2002). Further theoretical propositions in regard to self-theory within person-centered therapy. Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies, 1, 14-27.
Merry, T. (2002). Learning and Being in Person-Centred Counselling. Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.
Newnes, Holmes and Dunn. eds (1999) This is Madness: A Critical look at Psychiatry and the Future of Mental Health Services Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books
Newnes, Holmes and Dunn. Eds (2001) This is Madness Too: Critical Perspectives on Mental Health Services Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books.
Read, J. Sanders, P (2010) Straight-Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems. PCCS Books
Rogers, C. (1951). Client-Centered Therapy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (particularly pp 481-533).
Rowan, J. & Cooper, M. (Eds.) (1999). The Plural Self. London: Sage.
Thorne, B., & Sanders, P. (2013) Carl Rogers. London: Sage.
Tudor, L. E. (et al) (2004) The Person-Centred Approach: A Contemporary Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan
Van Werde, D. (2003) Dealing with the possibility of psychotic content in seemingly congruent communication. In D. Mearns, Developing Person-Centred Counselling (pp 125-128). London: Sage

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Key texts from residential week 2 (20-24 Jan) - available on Persona dropbox

19 Propositions
Freeth, R. (2007) A theory of personality and behaviour (Chapter 2) [The criticisms (p12-13) might be particularly useful - scanned in from Freeth's book]
Mearns, D. (1995) Rogers Nineteen Propositions Represented [An excellent, brief synopsis of each of the 19 propositions]
Mearns, D. (2002) Further Theoretical Propositions in Regard to Self Theory within Person-centered Therapy [Mearns suggests 9 extra propositions in addition to Rogers' 19]
Merry, T. (1999) Ch2: "Human Nature, Actualisation and the Development of the Individual" ["Proposition 4 - actualising tendency. Scanned in from 'Learning and Being in Person-Centred Counselling'"]
Rogers, C. R. (1951) Theory of Personality and Behaviour, Client-Centered Therapy [The place where 19 propositions all started - a must-read!]

Medical Model
Boyle, M. (2007) The Problem with Diagnosis. The Psychologist [Therapy Today article]
BPS (2020) A short guide to what every psychological therapist should know about working with psychiatric drugs [© Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry October 2020]
Warner, M. S. (2000) Person-Centred Therapy at the Difficult Edge ["Fragile process" and ''Dissociated' process"]
Wilkins, P. (2005)  Chapter 4: Person-Centred theory and 'mental illness' [From 'Joseph, S. Worsley, R. Eds (2005) Person-Centred Psychopathology: A Positive Psychology of Mental Health. PCCS Books']

Other / not sure where they fit
Lambers, E. (2000) Supervision in person-centred therapy: facilitating congruence [This is an interesting article about supervision with some good personal examples]
Mearns, D. (1999) Person-Centred Therapy with Configurations of Self - Counselling [Scanned in from magazine 'Counselling' from 1999]

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Key texts from study day 6 (22 Feb) - available on Persona dropbox

Medical model
Elliott, R. (2013) Person Centered / Experiential Psychotherapy for Anxiety Difficulties: Theory Research and Practice [Scanned in from 'Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Volume 12, 2013 - Issue 1']
Jackson, C. (2018) Nature and Nurture [Therapy Today, December 2018 Volume 29 Issue 10]
Styron, W. (1990) Darkness Visible an essay on the experience of depression [Vanity Fair December 1989]
Wolpert, L. (2001) Stigma of depression – a personal view [British Medical Bulletin 2001; 57: 221–224 (The British Council, 2001)]