Literature and Therapy

Draws us into the creative and imaginative spaces which lie between readers and their choice of novels, plays and poems. This work offers a systemic view, highlighting relationships, that calls to the reader to explore both therapy and literature with fresh eyes, newly motivated thoughts and a lightening heart.

Burns, Liz

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