The Good Story - Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy (Paperback)

The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a longstanding interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. J. M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stories. Working alone, the writer is in sole charge of the story he or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates with the patient in telling the story of their life. What kind of truth do the stories created by patient and therapist aim to uncover: objective truth or the shifting and subjective truth of memories explored and re-experienced in the safety of the therapeutic relationship? Drawing on great writers like Cervantes and Dostoevsky and on psychoanalysts like Freud and Melanie Klein, the authors offer illuminating insights into the stories we tell of our lives.

General

Imprint:	Vintage
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2016
Authors:	J. M. Coetzee • Arabella Kurtz
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	198
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-959822-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-09-959822-1
Barcode:	9780099598220

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