Grounded-Encounter Therapy

About the Book

Grounded Encounter Therapy is a discovery, intervention, and application approach which allows the theory which guides the process to be developed from an analysis of the situation or context, rather than imposed at the outset by the therapist. It is a dramatic contrast to psychological theories, particularly psychoanalysis, which impose a specific causal theory at the outset. In GET, on the other hand, the theory emerges from the client-defined context, not the other way around. The book introduces students and professionals an alternative to doing counseling and therapy. Traditional therapist see what they look for, and what they look for they see, and what they see is what their therapeutic modalities allow them to see, and what their therapeutic modalities allow them to see is what they treat.

About the Author

L. Alex Swan is Professor of Sociological Criminology and Clinical Sociology and Sociotherapy at Texas Southern University. He was Chair of the Department of Sociology at TSU and Fisk University, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Southern University, and served as Vice Chair and Chair of the Faculty Assembly and Senate. Dr. Swan is a graduate of Northern Caribbean University, Oakwood University, Clark Atlanta University and the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at Rice University, The University of Houston, Vanderbilt University, Sonoma State University, UC Berkeley, and Miami Dade Community College - South campus. He is the author of twelve books and over fifty articles.