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Zusatztext The authors offer a thoughtful and coherent discussion about the necessity of research outside the strictures of the medical model making an argument for more personal and experiential research being needed … I was impressed with the strength of the research that the authors used to consolidate their arguments. Informationen zum Autor Professor Liz Bondi divides her time between the School of GeoSciences and the School of Health in Social Science, where she is co-Director, at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Klappentext In this thought-provoking text, Liz Bondi and Judith Fewell invite practitioners to move away from an approach to research that depends upon distance and objectification, and towards a method centred on practical wisdom developed through intense exploration of the lived experience of therapeutic relationships. Following a close examination of the flaws of dominant approaches to research in the field, the book provides a richly detailed exploration of a diverse range of subjective experiences, from both practitioners and clients. Written by a collection of authors with a wealth of experience in practice and academia, this insightful and evocative text will inspire anyone undertaking research in this field - be they students, educators or practitioners. Zusammenfassung This evocative and thought-provoking book calls for an overhaul of how counselling and psychotherapy research is framed and conducted. Packed full of first-hand examples from a wealth of different perspectives, it puts forward an approach to research centred on practical wisdom developed through intense exploration of the lived experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: RECLAIMING THE WISDOM OF PRACTICE IN COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH 1. Why Does Research So Often Alienate Practitioners and What Can Be Done About It?; Liz Bondi and Judith Fewell 2. The Power of Examples; Liz Bondi and Judith Fewell 3. Rethinking Supervision and Ethics in Experience-Near Research; Siobhan Canavan and Seamus Prior PART II: COMING INTO THERAPEUTIC PRACTICE 4. A Trainee Counsellor's Account of Learning to Trust in the Process; Linda Gardner 5. Losing Touch: An Exploration of the Place of Touch in Therapeutic Relationships; Anna St Clair 6. Why I Became a Counsellor: Reflections on the Counter-transference; Mags Turner PART III: CLIENT VOICES 7. Working with Early Trauma in Therapy: Emerging from the Shadow of Polio; Connie Johnson 8. Regarding 'The Tea-house of the August Moon': Therapeutic Work with a Man with Schizophrenia within a Hospital Context; April Parkins 9. A Secret Sorrow: Making a Difference to Bereavement in Prison; Janette Masterton 10. 'Reading the Wound': Using Stories to Open up the Nature of Trauma; Linda Talbert PART IV: EMBODYING THEORY 11. An Investigation of Narratives of Anxiety; Chris Scott 12. Hauntings: On Discovering the Lived Experience of Counter-transference; Patrick Fegan 13. Working with Mark: Gender in the Consulting Room; Lynne Rollo 14. Tolerating the 'Chaos Monsters': Making Sense with Bion; Diana Sim. ...
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Professor Liz Bondi divides her time between the School of GeoSciences and the School of Health in Social Science, where she is co-Director, at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Judith Fewell is a Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
