Uncovering Mystery in the Everyday World

<p>This book is about psychotherapy. Written as a collection of tales about encounters between a therapist and his clients it reveals why many people would turn to therapy for help what they might look for and what they might actually find.</p><p><br></p><p>For Bob Chisholm a therapist who draws on Buddhist psychology in dealing with his clients helping someone find self-insight has less to do with understanding their life diagnostically than it does with appreciating their experience existentially - that is to say in all its inherent mystery.</p><p><br></p><p>The idea that uncovering mystery could be a way of freeing someone from their psychological misery may seem almost magical: like consulting a ouija board or gazing into tea leaves. But it is in the details and happenstance of a person's life - in the suspense of the everyday world - that the actual mystery of a person's life is sure to be found. Finding that mystery and helping people come to terms with it is what this book is all about.</p><p><br></p><p>Written for anyone training or practising as a psychotherapist or considering taking up therapy as a client 'Uncovering Mystery in Everyday Life' is also for anyone interested in the existential wonder of being human.</p>