1st Edition
Autoethnography in Therapy Exploring Therapist Emotions in Work with Self Injury
Acknowledgement
Chapter 1. Introduction: Before What Follows
Chapter 2. What are we talking about when we talk about self-injury
Chapter 3. Therapists Emotions: In conversation with the Literature.
Chapter 4. How this book was made: Shifting Thinking
Chapter 5. Interplay of Fear and Anger
Chapter 6. Countertransference and Doubt
Chapter 7. Jo The Sponge! Therapist on a Rope
Chapter 8. The Terror to the Threat of Immortality
Chapter 9. Voyeuristic Desires
Chapter 10. Loneliness and Sadness
Chapter 11. Self-Care and Addressing Burnout
Chapter 12. Grief and Letting Go
Chapter 13. Process and learning
Chapter 14. Key Emotional Experiences
Chapter 15. Implications and Recommendations
Chapter 17. Conclusion
Index
Biography
Joanna Naxton is a psychological therapist, PhD candidate, and lecturer with over a decade of experience working with adults, children, and young people in therapeutic settings. Her integrative approach is grounded in humanistic and person-centred principles, drawing on a range of modalities including psychodynamic and existential theory, Transactional Analysis, attachment theory, and creative practices such as SandPlay therapy.
“This thoughtful and well-crafted volume stems from years of personal experience and current research in the field. At the turn of every page, Jo leads us through sensitive areas of practice that therapists will find enlightening, revealing her skills as author, thinker and enabler to the profession.”
Dr Clive Palmer, University of Lancashire, UK
“Autoethnography in Therapy: Exploring Therapist Emotions in Work with Self Injury, is a vulnerable, unflinching, compassionate text that speaks into the silence surrounding the experience of therapists who work with those who self-injure. Jo Naxton's writing is full, warm, urgent, affecting. This is a unique and important book.”
Jonathan Wyatt, Professor of Qualitative Inquiry and co-director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh, UK
