 Hello and welcome to yet another Bob Cook reviews a psychotherapy book with me is Bob Cook from Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy and Bob is journaling via video his polymathic knowledge of psychotherapeutic literature and today's books a real treat really isn't it because it's a it's a seminal book in the world of counseling psychotherapy and it's called Beyond Empathy so why is this your choice for this particular book review Bob? Well this is the second book review after the Burns book last week which was psychotherapy 1971 book so this is probably my favorite book actually in the world of psychotherapy and counseling and it's by Richard Erskine and I like it because of two major reasons one he spells out clearly an integrated model of psychotherapy and secondly what I particularly like is this full of case studies and transcripts and explanations about clinical theory into practice and it brings the world of psychotherapy alive. It brings the actual therapy room of therapist and client alive. Wow so it really is a book of not just a book on dry theory but one that actually paints a vivid picture of what goes on that interchange that delicate play into play between clients with the theory intertwined between it would that be would that be a good summary Bob? That would be a good summary it's a master craftsman in action he's been around for 50 years at least. Wow. He trained with Fitz Pearls he nearly saw Eric Burton but missed it by 20 minutes which he's always saying to me about is a disappointment in his life but he goes back a long way and his integrated model which really is taken from his ideas on transaction analysis psychotherapy and he takes it further a step further he produces a methods inquiry and treatment involvement a how-to-do psychotherapy and an integrating model which is taken from mega states in fact really but he talks about an integrating adult and it's fascinating reading absolutely fascinating if you if you just open the first book and it goes through sorry the first chapter it goes through a review of the literature and outlines his model and then takes I think I'm not quite sure many case studies but brings that model alive in the room so you can see integrative psychotherapy in action and then he explains why he did that what he did what he did in terms of interventions clinical theory and also goes on to explain a treatment plan so he talks not only about how you do it in the actual clinical setting but where the therapy is heading so it gives a very holistic approach to the therapy it gives you not only not only an example of his interactions but also a real overview of how he plans to facilitate and move therapeutic change within that particular clients yeah it's very humanistic his definition of integrative psychotherapy I like it has two parts one a model borrows from you know many very well-known schools like self psychology psychodynamic theory transaction analysis cohort so he brought so it's influence so there's an integrative concept there and secondly which I really do enjoy the idea of the integration of the self that the therapist is always aiming to help the client take ownership of the different distinct fragmented disowned parts of the south and help him become aware of these parts in the service of an integrating whole yes yes and for those of you who are wondering what this book looks like I'm going to put a slide on the screen now for a few seconds and we'll put that slide on at the end and also a link to where you can buy the book from so you can click on it and if you want to buy it that you can so so there's the book so what is it that draws you to this book what is it that kind of makes it a very special piece of literature in your life well of course I know which it is gonna well as the author of the book and the person created integrative psychotherapy I've been a lot of psychotherapy workshops with him but he also trained me for nine ten eleven years in the whole art of psychotherapy and how to look towards helping the person become aware of the cutoff parts of the self and help him integrate take agency and ownership of the self so I love the concepts but I also have seen him utilize these concepts in action so I have a personal identification a personal touch if you like because I've been there when I've seen him work and I followed in his footsteps in terms of training with him and then I would call myself an integrative relational therapist so I work within the relationship helping the person get in touch with the part himself he's lost the trauma whatever way you want to look at this deficits and help him integrate that whole different parts of himself so that he so that he can utilize the energy that was stuck in the disowned parts and use energy to actually affect cure so for me it's the clinical ideas and also seeing the man in action so I've got a personal and a professional affiliation to this book absolutely and what kind of level of therapist would find this book beneficial Bob is this a student book is this someone who's been around therapy for a long time does it fit with any particular theory who is the kind of person who would benefit most from this I think a student person who's done a first training and some type of psychotherapy because they'll see the advanced nuances of the work that he does and they've already got a first training on under their belts so in some ways students master people who actually have had a first training want to refresh their skills or develop the knowledge they know already so it would be for beginning students all the way up to people who already psychotherapist who want to read a book of advanced nuances master craftsman so you've got a wide range there is it for somebody who doesn't know any about psychotherapy in my opinion they would find it interesting to read but they're going to get much more out of it if they have a have a background in psychotherapy in some way yeah they're going to be able to draw from their experiences of training and that would just add to the book and add to what they know and so it's very much of a text to enhance someone's existing skills that yeah yeah so counselors and psychotherapists we found it fascinating that have a glimpse into what happens in the clinical world you know they have to go out in the world and do placements tossing ions this will give them via transcripts a picture in the world of how clinicians work so for example in our training in psychotherapy the Manchester Institute it is a it's a first year book which the students will visit revisit and visit again all the way up to graduation beyond so it very much is a staple for your student training you know one yes on the reading list yeah it's a must book to buy and I think anybody is interested particularly if they're practicing or going to practice would find a certain aliveness and uniqueness in reading this book particularly the explanation of clinical theory into practice that's why I think enjoy the most and a lot of books you don't get that you have a theoretical explanation but there's transcripts aren't there to bring it alive so I really recommend it to counselors therapists alike and people perhaps soon just starting the world of psychotherapy just to get a glimpse on what a master craftsman does in the therapeutic room well it sounds like a ringing endorsement for this text you know Bob Cook thank you so much for sharing this book it seems to have a real personal place in your heart as Richard Erskine trained you and you've seen him in action and also it's one that you pass on like a treasure to your your students so so we'll put a link at the end if anybody wants to look at the book they can click on it and this isn't a paid endorsement for the book this is just Bob talking about his books if you click on click on the link at the end underneath the video you'll take you there and you can see a bit more about it so so the book we reviewed today is Beyond Empathy by Richard Erskine and there seems one not to miss so Bob Cook thank you very much thank you Roy for giving me chance to talk about this fantastic book a pleasure thank you