John McLeod

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and therapy. It covers all the core approaches to counselling, and takes a critical, questioning approach to issues of professional practice.

'Genealogy, Archive, Image' addresses the ways in which history and tradition are 'reinvented' through text, memory and painting. It examines the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad, situated in Gujarat, western India, over the longue durée, from the eleventh to twentieth centuries. The essays critique a collection of contemporary miniature paintings, which chart the dynastic history of Jhalavad's rulers and the textual and ethnographic...