Books received

Books received:
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Bateman, Anthony, Brown, Dennis & Pedder, Jonathan. Introduction to Psychotherapy. An Outline of Psychodynamic Principles and Practice.
Psychological Medicine
Campling, Frankie & Sharpe, Michael. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME). The Facts.
Curwen, Bernie, Palmer, Stephen & Ruddell, Peter. Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
Childs, Hal. The Myth of the Historical Jesus and the Evolution of Consciousness.
Falzeder, Ernst & Brabant, Eva (eds.). The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi.
Genova, Paul. The Thaw. 24 Essays in Psychotherapy.
Keve, Tom. Triad: the Physicists, the Analysts, the Kabbalists.
Sidoli, Mara. When the Body Speaks. The Archetypes in the Body.     

Obituaries

Obituaries for:
Beth Miller, p.399
Mara Sidoli, p.402
Barbara Mary Welch, p.406     

Contributors to this issue

John Beebe
Joseph Cambray
Coline Covington
Kenneth Eisold
David Lindorff
Peter Saunders
Jay Sherry
Patricia Skar
Margaret Wilkinson     

The place of psychotherapy and counselling in a healthy European social order: A commentary on Tantam and Van Deurzen

This commentary on Tantam and van Deurzen's vision for psychotherapy in Europe (this issue, pp. 228-235) interrogates their seeming modernity-driven, rights-obsessed convictions. Specifically, their uncritical advocacy of control-fixated political intrusions into the cultural-spiritual sphere is challenged; and critical reflections are offered on institutional professionalization; the authors' profession-centred, grandiose discourse; and therapy's alleged scientificity. Some dangers associated with individualised therapy's becoming a fetishized, institutionally sanctioned ‘regime of truth’ are voiced — one practicable antidote to which is the deliberate cultivation of an ongoingly deconstructive, ‘New Paradigm’ approach to therapy which, not least, mistrusts therapy's tendency towards delusory, self-interested exaggeration of its own cultural indispensability.