TY - JOUR
AU - Boycott, Joan
AB - 102 SHORTER NOTICES training analysis. It will be of lllost use to those already experienced in the field. Not all Marriage Counsellors, as Mrs Holt points out, wish to work at this level. But when clients want to change their attitudes or behaviour to\vards their partners, and cannot, they need help to find out what unconscious feelings are blocking their conscious wishes. Mrs Holt gives a brief and excellent account of the theories of Freud and Melanie Klein about infancy and childhood but incredibly she stops at the oedipal conflict, leaving out adolescence, which is of paranlount importance. She thus highlights certain stages of growth without ever indicating what growing up is all about. There arc also striking omissions froln the sources she quotes and the reading list she recomlnends. There is no nlention of Winnicott or Bowlby or Erikson who really bring all this area to life for the average reader. Her case histories are fascinating and well-written-up. One would not always agree with her interpretations - and at least one client did not, and failed to return - and this may be because her theoretical framework and conception of the counsellor's role are sometimes too inflexible. Although 
TI - Book Review: Full Face to God. By Hélène Dicken. SPCK, 1971. X+118 pp. 95p.; Beginning Now: Contemporary Experience of Creation and Fall. By John D. Davies. Collins, 1971. 285 pp. £2.50.
JF - Theology
DO - 10.1177/0040571X7207500214
DA - 1972-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-review-full-face-to-god-by-h-l-ne-dicken-spck-1971-x-118-pp-95p-aEorPJyVmT
SP - 102
EP - 103
VL - 75
IS - 620
DP - DeepDyve
ER -