The muse as therapist : a new poetic paradigm for psychotherapy / on behalf of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy by Heward Wilkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkinson, Heward.

Contributor:

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.

Series:

UKCP Karnac series.

UKCP Karnac series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Psychoanalysis.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In recent years there has been a cautious movement towards seeing psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences. In this rich, yet rigorous, multidisciplinary text, this movement is explored in terms of poetry; therapy; dreams; literary texts; Heideggerian, Kantian, and post-modern philosophy; the modern developmental theorising of Daniel Stern; and the politics of psychotherapy regulation. This path-breaking book offers a grounded challenge to reductive visions of the therapy process."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION: Discovering the Poetic Mystery at the Heart of Psychotherapy: An Unexpected Personal Journey; CHAPTER ONE: Therapy is Poetry; CHAPTER TWO: A Therapeutic Dialogue; CHAPTER THREE: Poetry or Existence?-Poetry Dialogues with Philosophy Dialogues with Poetry; CHAPTER FOUR: Reality, Existence, and the Shakespeare Authorship Question: King Lear, Little Dorrit, and the Man Who Was Shakespeare; CHAPTER FIVE: Poetic Enactment and Propositional Truth: Poetry and Objectivity

CHAPTER SIX: Epilogue: The Poetry and Politics of PsychotherapyBIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-92151-9

0-429-90728-1

0-429-48251-5

1-283-07085-5

9786613070852

1-84940-705-3

9780429482519

OCLC:

723944274