Contents:

• Features
  • Perceptions of supervision

    • A report on the findings from an analysis of member information gathered at regional Supervision Forum meetings

  • Emotion in couple therapy

    • A close look at the current state and new directions in emotionally focused couple therapy shows that fresh transformational emotional experiences have the power to impact self, the couple and the family

  • Fix You?

    • Co-dependency and the drama triangle: familiar issues for women who have been subjected to sexual abuse and incest as children

  • Prioritising and promoting connection

    • Imago relationship therapy is largely ignored in the UK but is a dynamic and thriving couple therapy worldwide

  • Negotiated nonmonogamy and male couples

    • Accepted tenets of heterosexual culture and mores cannot be applied to gay partnerships without unacceptably assuming psychopathology where none exists

  • Erotic intelligence

    • 'Settle down’ is the advice – but where does that leave ambiguity and allusion, the wild and kinky, or pure sexual excitement?

  • The growing edge

    • Person-centred therapy is actualising its potential in creative and original growth, forging new pathways
      and understandings

  • Groups are easy – so why train?

    • Bad group experiences deter us from taking part in what is biologically natural to us – group life – and can leave us traumatised and lacking in intimate connections

  • E-learning the art of supervision

    • Can counsellors and psychotherapists become effective supervisors through postgraduate training delivered totally online?

  • Person-centred therapy: the growing edge

    • Person-centred therapy is actualising its potential in creative and original growth, forging new pathways and understandings

  • Cover feature

    • Is it all Mars and Venus and hopeless? Or can we use the couple’s communication patterns to understand their attachment issues?

• Regulars
  • Editorial

    • Even if you don’t work with couples, you will surely learn something from reading this collection of articles which are about intimacy, gender difference and sexual fantasy – all areas that most individual clients will be interested in exploring. My verdict after reading them is that if you’re in a longterm happy partnership and having a satisfying sex life then you’re doing very well indeed!

  • Letters
    • Nice one!

      • Congratulations to BACP on the work reported in therapy today, June 2007, in regard to their submission to a House of Commons Select Committee inquiry into NICE.

    • False integrity?

      • I read Kevin Friery’s letter ‘Personal therapy: duty of care to clients’ (therapy today, May 2007), in which he outlined the importance of personal therapy in all professional counselling or psychotherapy training

    • Grief experience of bereaved mothers

      • Thank you for the article ‘Pebble on my wing’ in June’s therapy today, which articulates my journey over the last 19 years

    • Bereavement counselling challenge

      • As an experienced counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor in the bereavement field, I write to challenge Sue Marshall’s article in June’s therapy today

    • Human Givens approach

      • The review of How to Master Anxiety (Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrell) in April’s therapy today, while maybe raising some valid points on the book, does raise one interesting thing for me
        

    • Re-reading adoption legislation

      • I would like to add my voice to the ongoing discussion about adoption counselling, based on my personal experience as an adoptive parent

    • Is this a joke?

      • It was with amazement and revulsion that I read the News item ‘Toddler brains scanned for neglect’, reported from The Times in therapy today, June 2007

    • Let the bargaining begin

      • I think it good that Michael Feat (‘A paradoxical profession’ – Letters, June 2007) is thinking of retiring early

    • Personal therapy resolution...

      • I refer to the recent correspondence about there no longer being a requirement for personal therapy

    • But note...

      • To clarify: course accreditation criteria does not vary according to theoretical orientation

  • Reviews
    • Reviews

      • Feedback and suggestions for titles for review welcome. Email reviews@bacp.co.uk

  • Noticeboard
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• BACP
  • BACP News
    • News

      • Divisional news

  • BACP Professional Standards
    • Professional standards

      • Professional Standards

  • BACP Research
    • Research

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        Research Facilitator kaye.richards@bacp.co.uk