Extending Horizons in Helping and Caring Therapies

<p>This vital new book examines how healing encounters might further the horizons of practice and extend innovation in professional interpersonal relationships. Highly qualified contributors explore ways in which insights into individual, cultural and community meanings open further perspectives on human being and help clarify what can feel a confusing present and an increasingly unpredictable future. </p><p>Divided into parts on Personal and Professional Identity, Culture and Personal Context, Practice Research, and Clinical Practice, each chapter opens up thinking on crucial contemporary issues, informed by personal and clinical practice case-study examples and by findings from leading-edge research investigations, adding to the current literature on both theory and practice.</p><p>This book brings together voices from the margins, offering alternative practice perspectives that look beyond protocol and statistics-based therapy, emphasising the relational richness that informs professional interpersonal encounters in the support of mental health and wellbeing. It will be of immense value to counsellors and psychotherapists in training and practice, as well as for related mental health professionals and those with an interest in the caring professions.</p> <p><strong>Introduction</strong> <i>Greg Nolan and William West </i></p><p>Part I: Personal and Professional Identity</p><ol> <p> </p> <li>Reflections beyond Therapy: To Be or to Not-Be, is That the Question? </li> <i> </i><p>Bridget Tardivel </p> <p> </p> <li>‘Magical’ consciousness: An ancient god, synchrony, and anomaly in service of the ego. </li> <i> </i><p>David Smith & Friday Faraday </p> <p> </p> <li>The immersion of the mermaid: A heuristic autoethnographic approach to working </li> <p>therapeutically with active imagination and traumatic loss. <i>Rachel Mallen</i> </p> <p> </p> <li>Self-identity, redefinition and the trans-relational quest for meaningful connection.</li> <i> </i><p>Phil Goss </p> <b><i> </i></b><p>Part II: Culture and Personal Context</p> <p> </p> <li>It’s not all just psychology: Context, social class and counselling. <i>Liz Ballinger</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Confidence with Difficult Conversations: The need to explore taboo subjects in particular </li> <p>relation to the sexual abuse of children. <i>Barry O’Sullivan</i> </p> <p> </p> <li>Culture as a resource in the creation of meaning – Part One. <i>George MacDonald</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Culture as a resource in the creation of meaning – Part Two. <i>George MacDonald</i> </li> <b><i> </i></b><p>Part III: Practice Research</p> <p> </p> <li>Hope is a rope: Living with a difficult present and an uncertain future. <i>John Prysor-Jones</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>A Chocolate Santa: Imaging the liminal moment with reverie in research. <i>Lynn McVey</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Moments of deep encounter in listening relationships: Resisting limiting the interpretive frame </li> <p>to enhance beneficial encounter. <i>James Tebbutt</i> </p> <b><i> </i></b><p>Part IV: Clinical Practice</p> <p> </p> <li>There is no horizon, this side or that side, of our own shadow: The relational (l)edge in clinical supervision. <i>Greg Nolan</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>A dialogue with three voices: Therapist, interpreter, asylum seeker/refugee. </li> <i> </i><p>Lynn Learman </p> <p> </p> <li>Beyond relationships – into new realms. <i>Allison Brown </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Client wisdom and holism in anthroposophic psychotherapy. <i>John Lees</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Dwelling on the edge. <i>William West</i> </li> </ol><p>In Conclusion. <i>William West & Greg Nolan</i> </p>