PART I: Challenging the Ethics of Professionalised Therapy IA: Challenging Assumptions 1 How certain boundaries and ethics diminish therapeutic effectiveness Arnold A. Lazarus 2 Seeking professional help 'Anna Sands' 3 Psychotherapy, society and the individual David Smail 4 Power and psychological techniques Nikolas Rose 5 Are professional codes ethical? Stephen Pattison 6 A surveillance culture? Colin Feltham 7 Citrinitas: therapy in a new paradigm world Petruska Clarkson 8 Psychological distress and postmodern thought Vivien Burr and Trevor Butt 9 Limits to counselling and therapy: deconstructing a professional ideology Richard House IB: Challenging Professionalisation 10 Still whingeing: the professionalisation of therapy Yvonne Bates 11 The baby and the bathwater: 'professionalisation' in psychotherapy and counselling Nick Totton 12 Registering psychotherapy as an institutional neurosis: or, compounding the estrangement between soul and world Michael Whan 13 The statutory regulation of psychotherapy: still time to think again Richard House 14 Regulation: a treacherous path? Brian Thorne 15 Psychologists, licensing boards, ethics committees and dehumanising attitudes: with special reference to dual relationships Arnold A. Lazarus Part II Enabling Innovation and Diversity IIA: Enabling Accountability and Co-operation 16 Professional regulation as facilitation, not control: implications for an open system of registration versus restrictive licensure Daniel B. Hogan 17 Psychopractice accountability: proposal for a national 'full disclosure' trade directory Denis Postle 18 The fallacy of accreditation: re-ensouling psychotherapy as an alternative to accreditation Gari Tomkins 19 Akhenaten's folly: imposed beliefs in counselling and psychotherapy communities Yvonne Bates 20 Verbal and emotional abuse in therapy: encounters between therapy clients on therapy-abuse.net 'Natalie Simpson' IIB: Enabling Practice 21 Collaborative therapy: broadening the possibilities of clients and therapists Harlene Anderson 22 Unknowing: the Aquarian paradigm and therapy John Freestone 23 The power of language in therapeutic relationships Nicky Hart 24 Psy no more: towards a non-iatrogenic psychotherapy John Kaye 25 Soul in psychotherapy: an individual account Gael Rowan 26 Reflections and elaborations on 'post-professionalised' therapy practice Richard House IIC: Whither Therapy? 27 The active client: therapy as self-help Arthur C. Bohart and Karen Tallman 28 The mirror and the hammer: some hesitant steps towards a more humane psychotherapy Ernesto Spinelli 29 The future of therapy Dharmavidya David Brazier 30 A client's wish for the future of psychotherapy and counselling 'Rosie Alexander'