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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade ReviewThe 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. * Alexa Duff, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 19 (1) *
Table of ContentsPART 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.
