Counselling and Spiritual Accompaniment

Counselling and Spiritual Accompaniment presents the key spiritually-focused writings of Brian Thorne, one of the most influential thinkers on the convergence of spirituality with counselling, along with new material reflecting his recent work in spiritual accompaniment. Reflects the increasing focus on spiritual issues as an essential part of therapy Represents the culmination of an intellectual quest, undertaken by the most senior figure in the field, to integrate spirituality with counselling and the person-centred approach Features chapters that span thirty years of work, along with new writings that bring readers up to date with the author's most recent work in spiritual accompaniment An invaluable guide for counsellors and therapists who acknowledge the importance of spirituality to their clients, but doubt their abilities to help in this area

Preface ix Acknowledgements xii Part I From: Person-centred Counselling: Therapeutic and Spiritual Dimensions 1 Introduction 3 Chapter 1 In Search of Value and Meaning (1979) 8 Chapter 2 Intimacy (1982) 17 Chapter 3 The Quality of Tenderness (1985) 31 Chapter 4 The Blessing and the Curse of Empathy (1989) 42 Chapter 5 Carl Rogers and the Doctrine of Original Sin (1990) 61 Chapter 6 Carl Rogers: The Legacy and the Challenge (1990) 72 Chapter 7 The God Who Comes: Good Friday 1946 (1991) 86 Part II From: Person-centred Counselling and Christian Spirituality 91 Introduction 93 Chapter 8 The Two Carls – Reflections on Jung and Rogers (1983) 98 Chapter 9 The Personality of Jesus and the Process of Therapy (1991) 110 Chapter 10 Spirituality and the Counsellor (1993) 117 Chapter 11 Julian of Norwich: Radical psychotherapist (1993) 121 Chapter 12 Jesus, the Incarnation of Holiness (Three Sermons, 1993) 134 Chapter 13 Developing a Spiritual Discipline (1994) 146 Chapter 14 The Counsellor as Prophet (1994) 150 Chapter 15 Counselling and the Spiritual Journey (1997) 165 Part III From: The Mystical Power of Person-Centred Therapy 179 Introduction 181 Chapter 16 The Human Person: Hope or Despair? 187 Chapter 17 The Person-centred Therapist as Secular Priest and Prophet 197 Chapter 18 The Spiritual Discipline of the Person-centred Therapist 209 Chapter 19 The Use of Self 220 Chapter 20 Intimacy and Sexuality 231 Chapter 21 ‘Alive Alive’ 242 Chapter 22 When the World Stopped Turning 255 Part IV Ceasing to be a Therapist 265 Prologue 267 Chapter 23 The Heart’s Surrender (2005) 270 Chapter 24 The Counsellor and the Lay Canon: Different Routes but the Same Journey (2007) 293 Chapter 25 A Collision of Worlds (2009) 306 Chapter 26 The Fully Human Jesus (2009) 312 Chapter 27 Sacred Intimacy: Spiritual Accompaniment for our Times (2010) 329 Chapter 28 In Correspondence (2010) 341 Epilogue 343 Index 345