The good story : exchanges on truth, fiction and psychotherapy J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz.
"The Good Story is an exchange between a great writer with a long-standing interest in human psychology and a distinguished psychotherapist who has long been passionate about literature. Arabella Kurtz and J.M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches are language and story. Working alone, the writer is in sole charge of the story he or she tells. The therapist collaborates with the patient on the story of their life. Are they seeking an absolute truth or a fiction that will help the patient to overcome their distress? The authors discuss both individual psychology and the psychology of the group: the school classroom, the gang, the settler nation where the brutal deeds of the ancestors several generations back have to be accommodated into the national story. They draw on the work of great writers like Cervantes and Dostoevsky as well as canonical writers on psychoanalysis such as Freud and Melanie Klein. Their discussion provides an illuminating insight into the stories we tell of our lives."--Amazon.ca.
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- ISBN: 9781846558894 (paperback) :
- Physical Description: x, 198 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: London, England : Harvill Secker, 2015, ©2015.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Psychotherapy. Storytelling. |
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