Literature and Therapy : A Systemic View

ISBN-13: 9781855755949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 174 str.

Liz Burns

Opis

Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View is an invitation to the world of literature, drawing us into the creative and imaginative spaces which lie between readers and their choice of novels, plays and poems. In this world, the fundamental importance of emotion and intuition is recognized, as is the power of literature to promote transformations of meaning in everyday life and in therapeutic practice. Liz Burns demonstrates how a systemic view, highlighting relationships, calls the reader to explore both therapy and literature with fresh eyes, newly motivated thoughts and a lightening heart.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Burns, Liz