Listen Carefully and Other Tales from the Therapy Room

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78220-217-2
Verlag: Karnac Books

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: The Karnac Library

This collection of ten fictional short stories invites the reader inside the consulting room, right to the heart of the therapeutic encounter, to witness what goes on between a therapist and his clients as they engage with issues such as racism, sexuality, death and dying, disfigurement, coupledom, the "thrownness" of life and other existential concerns. Based on the author's extensive experience of clinical practice, these stories take us inside the therapist's mind, into his internal world and the process of his supervision. Whether warm and compassionate, thoughtful and reflective, reactive and critical, or simply flying by the seat of his pants, the therapist is exposed in all his human vulnerability as he draws on his knowledge and experience in his attempts to address the concerns of his clients. These challenging, disturbing and humorous stories provide a rich resource for the reader's own thinking and discussion - specifically encouraged in the final chapter where the author works through each story presenting themes and theoretical aspects, and provides a series of questions for reflection.Being fictional, these stories escape the confines of a text book's clinical case examples and have free rein over the unfolding plot yet, written by a practicing psychotherapist, they have the ring of authenticity that comes from many years experience in clinical practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lapworth, Phil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Listen carefully Uncoupled Woody Bay Super vision Different again The thrownness of life Armadillo Seven deadly sins Let's face it Tales out of school Reflections References Acknowledgements About the author

Über Autor(innen)

Lapworth, Phil
Phil Lapworth is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice near Bath. During his thirty years in clinical practice he has written extensively in the field of humanistic and integrative psychotherapy, including, with colleagues, several text books on various approaches to psychotherapy. In recent years he has turned to writing about therapy via fiction, seeing short stories as a particularly useful medium for reflection, challenge and entertainment for both practitioners and laypeople alike. Added to which, he very much enjoys writing them.