The Therapeutic Imagination: Using literature to deepen psychodynamic understanding and enhance empathy

by Jeremy Holmes

Book Overview

Use of the imagination is a key aspect of successful psychotherapeutic treatments. Psychotherapy helps clients get in touch with, awaken, and learn to trust their creative inner life, while therapists use their imaginations to mentalise the suffering other and to trace the unconscious stirrings evoked by the intimacy of the consulting room.

Working from this premise, in The Therapeutic Imagination Jeremy Holmes argues unashamedly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138789496
• ISBN13: 9781138789494
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"