CSP BOOKS

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A PLACE TO BE

$25.00

This is a careful, yet spirited collection of essays, thoughts, memories and feelings by two dozen current and former members. Some personal in tone, some more theoretical or whimsical, all shine light on how it is and was to personally experience what become key moments for one’s own life. In this unique professional community influences…

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CARL ROGERS ON PERSONAL POWER

$15.00

Why won’t I take on my own personal power and why do I let myself feel powerless in the face of those who seem to decide for me? “With more complete expression, individuals are recognized for their uniqueness and strengths, and mutual trust begins to develop.” A radically freeing book from the pen of Carl…

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CLIENT-CENTERED THERAPY: FOUNDATIONS AND FUNDAMENTALS

$8.00

STEVE VINCENT “What alarms me slightly is the fervor with which…Person-Centered Approach beliefs are held as though they constitute an absolute belief – a truth that is self evident.” Steve Vincent is concerned with differentiating between the work of those persons who counsel by implementing skills and those who are Person (or Client)-Centered in their…

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CONFLICT IS INEVITABLE – WAR IS OPTIONAL

$10.00

WILL STILLWELL Caught in the quicksand’s of conflict with other people? Unable to realize your hopes or quiet your fears? Here are thirty-four stories of everyday conflict situations presented so that readers may ask themselves, “How do I handle, in a new way, the differences between myself and others that have become antagonisms?” Will Stillwell…

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CREATURES OF INTIMACY AND FEATHER RAFT SELECTIONS

$8.00

Forest stream drops self exhales limb, rock, mosses, damp, earth still, only this

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HAVE YOU HEARD THE RIVER LAUGH

$10.00

BRUCE MEADOR Bruce Meador at his lighthearted best. Many miniatures, few are merely funny. Don’t think of it as reading the poetry out loud Think of it as turning the TV up So you can hear the sound better. Hi There, Sardines Each sardine packed in oil Says with missing grin “I might not have…

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LOSS: A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF EMPOWERMENT

$22.99

GRACE HARLOW KLEIN Taking the impact of the waves As they threatened to pull me under the crashing surf A tiny part of me looked on, watching with disbelief and interest. But the action at first took The most insignificant of forms Like getting out of bed each morning And turning on the lights.

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LOVE AND REVOLUTION

$9.99

J. WADE HANNON From father to son to father to son It’s not a straight line It’s not a circle It’s more of a web Weaved by a spider on drugs. From a late night, late in the millennium Why do you even bother? Existence is so fucking rich Why fritter it away with trivialities?…

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OLD MAN DREAMS

$10.00

WILL STILLWELL Our human origin is at moments of doubt, mystery, and fear. That we may be granted freedom from our doubts, mysteries and fears, we have nurtured and grown our understanding, our conscious living. Will Stillwell contends that in the West we understand through three major logic’s (or ways of caring for world’s life).…

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ON BECOMING A PERSON

$15.99

CARL ROGERS The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of “client-centered therapy.” His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious nature of his work has almost been forgotten. A new introduction by Peter Kramer sheds…

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PRIMAL PRESENCE

$7.00

WILL STILLWELL The meditations here are Will Stillwell’s attempt to think about and bring forward an experiencing of unconditional positive regard, congruence, and empathy. “In psychotherapy as in music, too much technique is never the problem. The problem is non-integrated technique where the technique shows itself as raw will.” “The psychotherapist then, is a person…

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QUESTING VOICES – INTERVIEWS WITH PERSON-CENTERED PRACTITIONERS

$5.00

Carl Rogers’ way of being in working with people has inspired many in the generations that he taught. Will Stillwell’s discussions of the ‘core conditions’ in dialogues with Ernest Meadows, Maria Bowen, and Bob Lee are meetings with three people carrying on this tradition: deepening to their own visions, centering to their own-persons.

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SONGS OF LIVING

$10.00

My inner self is very private I protect it from my managing self Often losing touch with it as I hide it While my managing self battles for what I think is my survival In a difficult outer world. (from Notes About Congruence) I imagine we are developing our relationships with death. Are those relationships…

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TEACH A DEER TO DANCE

$9.00

“I see myself as having a poetic glow somewhere down inside me…” How was I to know he danced To the beauty of the ridge? That the glen glazed his eyes for so much to see. (from His Eyes, Darkened by My Shadow) What I have just read to you – these words They are…

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TREE OF AWE

$7.00

WILL STILLWELL Most of my time I distract, tangled into self-assigned tasks an’ things whose thrill at accomplishment is less, less than that instinct instant our pulse is fingered, blood courses semen, flesh, eggs, and stones, smiling perfect realization that can never hold still Every thing rises from intimacy sticky candy on our fingertips.

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Wisdom of Children

$12.81

by Barbara Sheppard Williams (Author), Heather Danae Williams (Author). Children have the ability to trust, to express themselves, to be empathetic and open to difference. When a child can recognize and express these qualities it helps them to be insightful, self-confident, creative and resilient. When the wisdom of children is not recognized their self-confidence dips,…

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