Bøker av John Rowan

This book examines two moral theories of rights justification and applies them to four social issues: redistributive taxation, affirmative action, pornography, and abortion. It assesses the ethical status of several candidate social policies that continue to be debated in the public arenas.

Revised edition of the author's The reality game, 1998.

"The language of rights is utilized frequently in debates over contemporary social issues--a fetus's "right to life" versus a woman's "right to choose," for example. Because these debates pertain to wha"

Discusses the theory behind multiplicity of the person and reveals thinking and research in the field. This title offers guidelines for using this information in practice.

By providing an introduction to the realm of the transpersonal, this book eliminates many of the misunderstandings that plague this area. It relates the transpersonal to everyday life as well as to professional concerns and the various schools of therapy.

Presenting an account of the state of training, this book proposes that there are three ways of doing therapy: the instrumental, the authentic and the transpersonal way. By challenging the basic precepts of traditional training, the author encourages the reader to reconsider subjects.

The author argues that if men are to escape from their old roles and the new pressures of social uncertainty they need to be initiated into a new kind of masculinity, but that this process must be personal to each man.

Deals with what is perhaps the central question in therapy - who is the therapist? And how does that actually come across and manifest itself in the therapeutic relationship? This book is aimed primarily at counsellors and psychotherapists, or trainees in these disciplines.

We all have had the experience of being divided, of being in two minds about something. Subpersonalities is the first book to do justice to the phenomena as a normal feature of our psychological life.

Most of us have had the experience of another personality taking over us, causing us to behave in an unintended way. Well known psychologist and writer John Rowan shows how each of us is made made up of a number of 'subpersonalities'.

Widely regarded as one of the most important books on humanistic psychology. The new edition contains much of the original material together with postmodern ideas, taking into account changes in many different areas plus extended bibliography