Literature and Therapy - A Systemic View

Draws us into the creative and imaginative spaces which lie between readers and their choice of novels, plays and poems. This work offers a systemic view, highlighting relationships, that calls to the reader to explore both therapy and literature with fresh eyes, newly motivated thoughts and a lightening heart.

List of contents

Introduction -- Starting Out -- Starting out with literature -- Practising with literature -- Living with metaphor -- Travelling On -- Becoming a therapist: putting theory into practice and practice into theory -- Enquiry: a valuable tool for mountaineers -- Reading and writing -- Are We Nearly There? -- Destinations and endings -- List of literary works mentioned in the text and not included in the references -- Literary texts brought by research participants -- Literary resources and how to find them -- Exercises

About the author

Burns, Liz

Summary

Draws us into the creative and imaginative spaces which lie between readers and their choice of novels, plays and poems. This work offers a systemic view, highlighting relationships, that calls to the reader to explore both therapy and literature with fresh eyes, newly motivated thoughts and a lightening heart.

Product details

• Authors: Liz Burns, Burns Liz
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367325350
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32535-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy, Culture and Psychoanalysis