Experiential Psychotherapy

Rating:
Summary: Like precious wine
Review: "An extraordinary personal document that you may want to read all at one sitting...or take in small sips like a precious wine. This is a very easy book to read because it is totally intriguing. This book does what has been needed for years. It brings together and explicates the central principles of experiential psychotherapy and it does so in a disciplined fashion."-Larry Tirnauer, Past President, American Academy of Psychotherapists, GEORGIA PSYCHOLOGIST

Rating:
Summary: Recommended for all psychotherapists
Review: "Using an informal writing style the authors have presented an interesting, informative and readable text covering the history, basic concepts and general principles of Existential Psychotherapy. It is recommended reading for all psychotherapists, notwithstanding their varied therapeutic philosophies."-Robert D. Weitz, PhD, ABPP, PYSCHOTHERAPY IN PRIVATE PRACTICE

Rating:
Summary: Pretentious nonsense
Review: A typical book written to be an approach to psychotherapy. Yet, ask an experiental therapist what exactly is "experiental" pscyhotherapy and you will not get a straight answer.

Reading the book is just like that. You have no idea what experiental psychotherapy is or what the point of the book is. When reading the book you do, however, get the sense that the individuals who wrote the book are self-important snobs who beleive that they (as "special" people) somehow have a special connection with human beings and their mental anguish.

There are case vignettes presented that reek of nonsensical rhetoric...A very typical book about psychotherapy which has no basis in reality (except of course to the individuals who wrote it)....Psychology is the only "profession" where "anything goes". If this occurs in medicine, I believe there is a name for it-Quackery...There are some approaches to psychotherapy that at least make an attempt ate being scientific and valid, but this is certainly not one of them...Give us all a break.