Keith Tudor

Finally, I will consider two aspects of person-centred politics. Firstly, and internally, I will offer a critique of the proliferation of so-called tribes within person-centred psychotherapy and counselling (and, more broadly, the person-centred approach), to the detriment of our integrity. Following on from this, I will consider how person-centred psychology can represent itself externally with more coherence and confidence – for the betterment of people, education, and the political world.

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The professional background is in social work (probation, field and hospital social work, and psychiatric social work) and psychotherapy (voluntary sector youth counselling, and private pratice). Dr. Tudor completed training in gestalt therapy and transactional analysis, in addition to which he has studied person-centred psychology extensively. With his partner, Louise Embleton Tudor, he founded the organisation, Temenos, in Sheffield, which was – and is – committed to person-centred education and training, and which they directed for 17 years. He also designed and ran the first postgraduate person-centred psychotherapy & counselling training programme in the UK, which was also validated as a Master’s degree (by Middlesex University). Dr. Tudor is a Certified Transactional Analyst and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, a Teaching Member of the International Transactional Analysis Association, and an Associate Member of Waka Oranga. He is also the series editor of “Advancing Theory in Therapy” (Routledge, UK), the editor of Psychotherapy and Politics International (Wiley-Blackwell, UK), and, for six years, was the co-editor of Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications, including 15 books, the last of which are: Psychotherapy: A Critical Examination (PCCS Books, 2018), Pluralism in Psychotherapy: Critical Reflections from a Post-regulation Landscape (Resource Books, 2017), and Conscience and Critic: The Selected Works of Keith Tudor (Routledge, 2017).