1st Edition

Literature and Therapy A Systemic View

By Liz Burns Copyright 2009
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

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 recognised, as is the power of literature to promote transformations of meaning in every day life and in therapeutic... Read more
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

Biography

Burns, Liz