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Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series)

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Whitmore, Diana (2004) Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action, Third Edition, London, Sage Publications

This book is a `breath of fresh air'. The ease with which Diana writes, and the visual images she portrays, gives us a direction forward into our own healing and the immanent healing of our planet.

Being the 3rd edition, Diana has taken the time to bring this book of knowledge into the new millennium and its paradigm, fraught with difficulties requiring immediate assistance and enlightenment...and, enlighten us she does as she walks us through transcendence/immanence and the search for the lost Self, union with the greater whole, and the fostering of personal as well as transpersonal psychosynthesis.

This book is about Psychosynthesis Counselling and Diana gives us the natural assumptions, showing us the unfolding skills and interplay between the counsellor and the client. She showers us with the practical skills necessary for a therapeutic relationship and includes the space of true acceptance, a practice said to be extremely rare.

If you have ever found yourself lacking in the ability to communicate psychosynthesis to others you will enjoy the way this book expresses, with simplicity and ease of flow, the tenets of an effective psychosynthesis relationship.

This book is a `must read' for anyone who is willing to walk through this world consciously and interact in a meaningful way with other human beings. It is not a replacement for a good training center, but rather an enhancement and enrichment for those walking this path.