Structuring the Therapeutic Process: Compromise With Chaos

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Cox, Murray

Psychology & Counseling

Pergamon Pr

Coding the therapeutic process: Emblems of encounter : a manual for counsellors and therapists (Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies)

Pergamon Press Ltd.

This imaginative psychotherapy considers the aim of the Aeolian Mode is to release an individual's creative energy by freeing that person from the restrictive legacy of the past.

Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy: The Aeolian Mode

Theilgaard, Alice

Tavistock Books

Outstanding. There is authenticity and honesty in Dr Cox's message.'- American Journal of Psychiatry'Rich and thought provoking. A stimulating reflection for those of us who are aware of the unwithering need of organising and structuring again and again our creative doubts. A book highly recommended.'- Group Analysis'It is a real work of art. Supervisors and teachers of counselling it will repay reading and re-reading. It combines practical help and the development of theoretical concepts in an unusually convincing way. Strongly recommended.'- British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

Structuring the Therapeutic Process: Compromise with Chaos: The Therapist's Response to the Individual and the Group

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

'A convincing plea is made for visual display systems in the place of conventional notes particularly for teaching and research.'   - British Journal of Psychiatry  'The notation used has great promise as an extremely helpful conceptual tool for the group therapist in clinical work and research.'   - American Journal of Psychiatry  'Any way of increasing the usable information content of case notes is to be welcomed, and this manual contains some very useful suggestions, whether the user has read the major book or not. Strongly recommended.'  - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

Coding the Therapeutic Process: Emblems of Encounter: A Manual for Counsellors and Therapists

Shakespeare As Prompter: The Amending Imagination in Theatre and Therapy

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Jessica Kingsley Pub

Prompting is the thematic thread that pervades the pages of this book. Its primary connotation is that of the prompter who is urgently called into action, at moments of anxiety, when narrative begins to fail. The central dynamic issue concerns the amending imagination as a prompting resource which, through creativity and the aesthetic imperative, can be invoked in this therapeutic space when the patient - through fear, resistance or distraction - is unable to continue with his story. Psychotherapy can be regarded as a process in which the patient is enabled to do for himself what he cannot do on his own. Shakespeare - as the spokesman for all other poets and dramatists - prompts the therapist in the incessant search for those resonant rhythms and mutative metaphors which augment empathy and make for deeper communication and which also facilitates transference interpretation and resolution. The cadence of the spoken word and the different laminations of silence always call for more finely tuned attentiveness than the therapist, unprompted, can offer. The authors show how Shakespeare can prompt therapeutic engagement with "inaccessible" patients who might otherwise be out of therapeutic reach. At the same time, they demonstrate that the clinical, off-stage world of therapy can also prompt the work of the actor in his on-stage search for representational precision.

Shakespeare as Prompter: The Amending Imagination and the Therapeutic Process

Dramas & Plays

This lecture explores some aspects of creativity, metaphor and language which are common to the worlds of group-analysis and poetry/drama. Both depend upon poiesis - the calling into existence of that which was not there before - and responsive enactment. One of the aims of psychotherapy is to re-call into "conscious" existence and integrate previously repressed experience. This is particularly important in forensic psychotherapy. In this lecture the concept of ominiference is introduced. This is the all-carrying-allness of the group, including the conductor, which makes analysis not only tolerable and safe, but actually inviting. Group-analysis and dramatic enactment both need an adequate playground; a space set aside in which it is safe to play. The lecture cites passages from Freud, Foulkes and Winnicott which refer to the comparison between the work of the therapist and that of the creative artist. It develops three Foulksian themes: first trusting the group; second, consideration of group levels, with particular reference to the primordial level; third, the relevance of group analytic psychotherapy to forensic issues. After a plea for constructive dialogue between theology and group-analytic concerns, the proceedings close with readings from Shakespeare on related themes.

The Group as Poetic Play-Ground: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis: The 1990 S H Foulkes Annual Lecture

Mental Health

Widely regarded as the definitive work on forensic psychotherapy, this major compendium is now also published in paperback in one volume. This compendium of forensic psychotherapy brings together the contributions of over sixty authors and covers all aspects- both theoretical and applied- of this currently crystallizing field.

Forensic Psychotherapy: Crime, Psychodynamics and the Offender Patient (Forensic Focus, 1) TWO VOLUMES

Cordess, Christopher

The aim of the Aeolian Mode is to release creative energy by freeing an individual from the restrictive legacy of the past. Taking Bachelard's paradox "But the image has touched the depths before it stirs the surface" as a paradigm, the book presents the therapeutic possibilities inherent in metaphor and image whereby patients are enabled to tell their story. Authenticity and meaning are enhanced as unconscious and conscious material become integrated.
'The joint ticket of Murray Cox's story-telling clinical style, with his rich literary allusions and Alice Theilgaard's wide background knowledge of the harder strands of academic and clinical psychology, with its neurological substrates, provides what is needed for a creative and more balanced synthesis for the vote-catching reader who would need to realize that he or she is taking up not just one book to read and re-read, but a comprehensive syllabus of exciting new reading in a neglected shadow area.'
- Group Analysis
'It is a wonderfully good read. It will carry engaged and attending readers into extensions of their own styles in psychotherapy, whatever their theoretical base … Associative reverberations allow the therapist to "wait and witness" until the moment comes when a mutative metaphor can touch the depths before it stirs the surface.'
- American Journal of Psychiatry
'This book will add a new dimension to the work of analytical therapists, provided they are not too steeped in theoretical orthodoxy.'
- British Journal of Psychiatry
'The book shows how literary material may be incorporated within the working situation of a therapist: it does not use psychoanalytic concepts reductively to explain the workings of literature. Mutative Metaphors demonstrates for the reader- whether from the psychoanalytic or the literary field - the value of associativeness as a complex cognitive function not merely a decorative one.'
- British Journal of Psychotherapy
'This book will endure, because it is both theoretically well-grounded and innovative.' 
- Psykolog Nyt
'It seems to me one of the most significant theological essays we are likely to see for a good while and I shall be recommending it to my students as such. I am personally genuinely grateful for such a blend of clinical/narrative detail and imaginative exploration.'
- Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
'This is one of the most penetrating books known to me on the nature and power of poetic images, and one might add one of the most illuminating studies of Shakespeare's use of images… In this period in which a nadir of trivialization of language and an impoverishment of images has surely been reached, a look into these depths where `The worst is not/So long as we can say This is the worst' might be salutary.' 
- Kathleen Raine
'This is an important book. The central ideas, theoretical formulations, and practical clinical suggestions are original, co-ordinating much established knowledge. It is an exciting contribution to the development of what might be called "imaginative psychotherapy".
- Robert F Hobson
'This may well be the first textbook of psychopoetics.' 
- Noel Cobb

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Structuring the Therapeutic Process: Compromise With Chaos

Coding the therapeutic process: Emblems of encounter : a manual for counsellors and therapists (Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies)

Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy: The Aeolian Mode

Structuring the Therapeutic Process: Compromise with Chaos: The Therapist's Response to the Individual and the Group

Coding the Therapeutic Process: Emblems of Encounter: A Manual for Counsellors and Therapists

Shakespeare As Prompter: The Amending Imagination in Theatre and Therapy

Shakespeare as Prompter: The Amending Imagination and the Therapeutic Process

The Group as Poetic Play-Ground: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis: The 1990 S H Foulkes Annual Lecture

Forensic Psychotherapy: Crime, Psychodynamics and the Offender Patient (Forensic Focus, 1) TWO VOLUMES

Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy: The Aeolian Mode