"Feltham provides the reader with a highly informed view from within about the counselling trade. The honest exploration expected in counselling is turned on its own organisations, theories and practices. Candid and clearly written throughout, this is a very useful bean-spilling book." David Pilgrim, Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool In Colin Feltham's latest book, you won't find banal self-satisfaction about therapy's beneficence, or yet another yawn-generating formulaic textbook. Rather, Feltham's discursive panoramic perspective takes therapy writing to new, urgently needed levels of critical engagement. Of all the writers I know in our field, Colin Feltham is perhaps the best placed to provide critical friendship. For therapy trainings that seek to produce critically minded practitioners who are sensitive to both therapy's strengths and its many lacunae, this book is seminal reading - and for all therapists, not only counselling psychologists. Dr Richard House, University of Winchester; author of In, Against and Beyond Therapy, and co-editor of Against and For CBT (both PCCS Books)