Reviewed by Justine Harris,

Beyond Counseling and Therapy is remarkable. It looks at first glance like an indifferently printed textbook-overly busy format, cheap binding. Instead it is a compendium of ideas, arguments, and pleas ranging from savage to profound. Here are some of its features: the introduction of a comprehensive model for counseling and therapy; an assessment of the state of these "science arts " in recent years; critiques of the philosophies, strengths, and weaknesses of five major therapy systems; attacks on the influence of our sick society on individuals; a description of a new approach in directive therapy; an outline of the major dimensions for counselor-training programs: and abstracts of several relevant research studies. This is by no means all, but it's enough to go on with. The authors are strongminded concerned men who are in a hurry-they are sometimes less than perfectly organized, often a whole lot less than perfectly serene-and they deserve our close attention. Carkhuff and Berenson are convinced that our society-they are speak ing of North America-does not provide "sources of human nourishment&quot