William B. Stiles is a professor of clinical psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1972. He taught previously at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he has held visiting positions at the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds in England, at Massey University in New Zealand, and at the University of Joensuu in Finland. He is the author of Describing Talk: A Taxonomy of Verbal Response Modes. He has been president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research and North American Editor of Psychotherapy Research. Website: www.users.muohio.edu/stileswb.

Jeanne C. Watson, Ph.D. (Clin.Psych.) is a professor in counseling psychology at OISE / University of Toronto, Canada. She graduated in 1993 from York University, Toronto where she trained in client-centered therapy with Laura Rice. Later she expanded her person-centered approach to include an emotion focused techniques in her work with individuals and couples when she was Project Director on the York Depression Project with Leslie Greenberg and Laura Rice. Dr. Watson has co-authored and edited six books on counseling practice, including Learning Emotion Focused Therapy: The process experiential approach to change (2003); Expressing Emotion: Myths, Realities and Therapeutic Strategies (1999); Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy in the 21^st Century: Advances in theory research and practice (2002); Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy (1998); Process-Experiential Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Depression (2005); and most recently Case Studies in Emotion Focused Treatment of Depression with Drs. Rhonda Goldman and Leslie Greenberg in 2007, as well as more than 40 articles and chapters. Dr. Watson conducts research on the process and outcome of emotion focused therapy with an emphasis on empathy, the working alliance, depression, and emotional expression. In 2001 she received the "Outstanding Early Achievement Award" from the International Society for Psychotherapy Research. She is currently examining differences between emotion focused therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy in the treatment of depression. She gives workshops in Emotion Focused Therapy in Europe and Canada and teaches courses in counseling theory and practice to Masters and Ph.D. students in the Counseling Psychology program at the University of Toronto. Dr. Watson maintains a part-time private practice in Toronto.

Mick Cooper is a Professor of Counselling at the University and a UKCP-registered psychotherapist. His practice is informed by person-centred, existential, postmodern and interpersonal approaches. He is author of ‘Essential Research Findings in Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Facts are Friendly’ (Sage, 2008), ‘Existential Therapies’ (Sage, 2003) and numerous other texts on person-centred, existential, relational and pluralistic approaches to therapy. He is also co-author, with Dave Mearns, of the bestselling ‘Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy’ (Sage, 2005). Mick lives in Glasgow with his partner and four children.

Book Reviews Editor

Elizabeth Freire

Assistant Editors

Editorial Board

Former Editors

Robert Elliott (2002-2007) was one of the founding Editors and he is now Editor Emeritus.

Dave Mearns (2002-2008) was one of the founding Editors.

Peter Schmid was one of the founding Editors (2002 -2010)

Peter F. Schmid • Mick Cooper • Jeanne Watson • Bill Stiles at Highgate, London, July 2009

Bill Stiles • Peter F. Schmid • Pete Sanders (publisher) • Dave Mearns • Elke Lambers (chair board WAPCEPC) • Robert Elliott at the editors' meeting in Potsdam, July 2006