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Person-Centred Counselling and Christian Spirituality

The Secular and the Holy
By Brian Thorne
Series: Exc Business And Economy (Whurr)
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Professor Brian Thorne explores the vital intersection of person-centred counselling and Christian spirituality, highlighting the importance of recognising the spiritual needs that many clients bring to secular counselling settings. He appeals to therapists to embrace these spiritual issues genuinely and encourages Christians to draw on their rich spiritual heritage while avoiding the pitfalls of institutional power struggles. The book offers a hopeful perspective rooted in navigating tensions and paradoxes to find freedom and resourcefulness.
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Ideal for counsellors, therapists, and students interested in integrating spirituality with counselling practice, as well as Christians seeking a deeper understanding of their faith in therapeutic contexts.

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This second volume of Brian Thorne's collected works contains both published and unpublished material from the years 1981-1997. These papers illustrate the richness of the author's experience.

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Professor Thorne shows convincingly that the spiritual needs and yearnings of many clients presenting themselves to secular counsellors can no longer be ignored, trivialized or pathologized. The book constitutes an impassioned plea both to person-centred therapists to acknowledge the centrality of spiritual issues for many of their clients and also to Christians to embrace the richness of their spiritual tradition without becoming entangled in the death-dealing complexity of religious and institutional power-mongering.

Person-Centred Counselling and Christian Spirituality is a hopeful book that could only have been written by someone whose particular vocation seems to be to live with tensions and paradoxes and to find there a greater freedom and a richer resourcefulness.

Series: Exc Business And Economy (Whurr)

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781861560803

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 1998

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 233.0mm

Weight: 255g

Pages: 176

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Brian Thorne Education & Reference Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Series: Exc Business And Economy (Whurr)

About the Author

Brian Thorne is Co-founder and Professional Fellow at The Norwich Centre for Personal, Professional and Spiritual Development, Emeritus Professor of Counselling at the University of East Anglia, and a Lay Canon of Norwich Cathedral. Thorne is an internationally recognised figure in the field of person-centred therapy, and was a close colleague of Carl Rogers.

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