1st Edition

Between Psychology and Psychotherapy A Poetics of Experience

By Miller Mair Copyright 1989
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

In this highly original and thought-provoking work the late Miller Mair puts forward his ideas for a new psychology. First published in 1989, he deals with issues of fundamental importance to the future of a psychology guided by genuine enquiry and concern rather than mere professional self-interest. Crossing and re-crossing boundaries between psychology, psychotherapy and philosophy, and between... Read more

Acknowledgements  Introduction  Part One: A Poetics in Practice  1 Caring to know  2 Pretending to care  3 Some personal impressions of psychotherapy  4 Psychology in an intermediary mode  5 A use of imagery in psychotherapy  6 Towards a poetics of experience  7 Preaching what we practise  Part Two: A Personal Story  Between thee and me  Part Three: A Discipline of Discourse  8 Hints of a conversational psychology  9 The passion of knowing  10 Speaking from within a world  References  Index

Biography

Miller Mair