Client-Centred Therapy: Foundations and Fundamentals

by Steve Vincent 2000

“What alarms me slightly is the fervour with which…Person-Centred Approach beliefs are held as though they constitute an absolute belief – a truth that is self evident.” Steve Vincent is concerned with differentiating between the work of those persons who counsel by implementing skills and those who are Person (or Client)-Centred in their being. In these essays he approaches his concerns by threading together various of his understandings: What is Humanism? What do different types of therapies do, and what do they imply about human beings? And especially, what does (and does not) constitute Person-Centred therapy?

“Why be the Magician when You can be the Magic?