A vibrant passionate and hugely readable text which goes to the heart of thetherapeutic project how to help clients lead fuller and more meaningful lives Mick C... » 

A vibrant passionate and hugely readable text which goes to the heart of thetherapeutic project how to help clients lead fuller and more meaningful lives Mick Cooper Professor of Counselling at University of StrathclydeThe unspoken yearning that brings people to therapy is often that of adesperate desire for happiness. Should therapists ignore this desire interpretit or challenge it? And what does our preoccupation with happiness tell usabout contemporary culture and the role of the therapist?In this book Emmy van Deurzen addresses the taboo subject of the moral role ofpsychotherapists and counsellors. Asking when and why we decided that the aimof life is to be happy she poses searching questions about the meaning oflife. Psychotherap y and the Quest for Happiness seeks to define what a goodlife consists of and how therapists might help their clients to live wellrather than just in search of happiness.This text makes stimulating reading for all trainee and practising counsellorsand psychotherapists especially those interested in the existential approach.Emmy van Deurzen is CoDirector of the Centre for the Study of Conflict andReconciliation and honorary Professor at the School of Health and RelatedResearch University of Sheffield «