Defense Mechanisms in the Counseling Process

Edition

1st edition

Published

1998

Publisher

SAGE Publications, Inc

ISBN-13

9780761906612

ISBN-10

0761906614

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Language

English

`[The client material]... stimulated thought and reflection... Clark presented a large number of very tricky case studies and illustrated all manner of different and interesting ways of responding to clients who find it difficult to engage with the process of counselling. Furthermore, this is done in the framework of a model of counselling which integrates humanistic, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural theories in a most interesting and convincing way. In the end, I learned quite a lot and found myself pondering the case histories days later′ -Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling The understanding of defence mechanisms is vital to counsellors and psychotherapists, particula