In this issue
Features
E-therapy, equality and access (free article)
Catherine Jackson explores the benefits聽for clients of online and digital therapies.
When passion cools
Anne Power explains the factors underlying聽loss of desire within relationships.
A philosophy of wonder
Paul Gordon believes that all therapists聽should read Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
When the war is over
Sian Morgan reports on an international聽project to bring EMDR to war-torn peoples.
Insecurity of tenure
Liz Ballinger fears for the survival of聽counselling training in universities.
Strangers in a strange land
Counsellors need special skills to engage聽the unprepared client, argues Anne Crisp.
Regulars
In practice
Rachel Freeth: Meaning-making and medication
In the client's chair
Dawn Lang: A little community kindness
In training
Mel Perry: Resistance is futile
The researcher
Barry McInnes: Let the data do the talking
Talking point
JP Corrigan: Reaching out across the divides
How I became a therapist
Divine Charura
Questionnaire
Mike Shooter
Dilemmas
Placement supervision
The interview
Michael Jacobs: Past, present and future
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From the chair
Amanda Hawkins: Our role in the criminal justice arena
Additional online content
In conversation
Colin Feltham interviews Liz Ballinger about the threats to the future of counselling courses in further and higher education.
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Editorial
I have just returned from 香港六合彩精准资料鈥檚 Evening聽with Yalom by video link, which was attended聽by nearly 1,000 香港六合彩精准资料 members. I confess that聽the prospect of having the great man beamed聽into a conference hall in London worried me聽a lot as I thought people might be terribly聽disappointed. I couldn鈥檛 have been more聽wrong. Somehow the giant screens and the聽technology via which we could interact with聽Yalom and his psychotherapist son Victor,聽while they sat looking relaxed at home in聽California, created an experience that for聽me was infinitely superior to the last time聽I was in one of Yalom鈥檚 large audiences in聽a London University lecture hall. Strangely聽the technology made it feel more direct,聽more authentic, more intimate even.
I would like to have asked Yalom what聽he thinks about online therapy, which we聽revisit in our news feature this month. I can鈥檛聽imagine, with his emphasis on working in the聽here and now, that he would rate it very highly.聽I have never had online therapy myself but聽have the same instinctive suspicions as I do聽of online dating. I remember being told during聽my therapy training that over 80 per cent of聽communication is non-verbal. If this is true聽then surely online therapy would be seriously聽limiting? But, as the interviewees in our聽feature all agree, online is how most people聽communicate these days. Online therapy can聽reach people who would never access therapy聽in their whole lives; it is preferred by different聽age groups for its convenience and flexibility;聽it is cheap to deliver. And for many people it聽offers a more effective experience than face聽to face: some therapists are reporting that聽clients are able to 鈥榙rill down to the issues that聽matter more quickly鈥� and are also more ready聽to 鈥榙isclose personal information when they聽can鈥檛 actually see or be seen by their therapist鈥�.
Wasn鈥檛 this why another famous therapist聽introduced the couch? He felt uncomfortable聽when his patients looked at him and believed聽that when no eye contact was made, patients聽felt freer to express themselves.
Sarah Browne
Editor