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Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy

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I have a couple of warnings for people reading this book.

1) Although it was edited by one team of experts in the field (one of them coming from my school, York University :) ) the chapters themselves are articles that were written by the people who knew best about the subject matter at hand. This is a book that attempts to bring together the theoretical and clinical work that has been done by a wide variety of Clinicians who can be lumped under the 'Experiential' paradigm. As such you must be prepared for a different writing style in almost every chapter that you encounter in this book.

2) If you are not already a professional in the field, then you must be prepared to devote a lot of your time and brain power to absorb this book. It is not particularly written for Undergraduate Students, and definitely not written for the average layperson.

Granted these two facts, if you do in fact invest the time and brain power to read this book then I promise you it will be incredibly fruitful. The experiential paradigm has a lot to offer in the emotive and conceptual realms. If you read through this book, you will get a very lingering taste of the work that is being done by Psychologists in the Experiential Paradigm.