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 that literate therapists make
better therapists. Drawing on psychoanalytic and literary
traditions both classical and contemporary, Part I shows how poetry
and novels help foster therapists understanding of their own
imagination-in-action, anatomised into five phases: attachment,
reverie, logos, action and reflection. Part II uses the contrast
between secure and insecure narrative styles in attachment theory
and relates these to literary storytelling and the transformational
aspects of therapy. Part III uses literary accounts to illuminate
the psychiatric conditions of narcissism, anxiety, splitting and
bereavement. Based on Forster s motto, Only Connect, Part IV
argues, with the help of poetic examples, that a psychiatry shorn
of psychodynamic creativity is impoverished and fails to serve its
patients.
Clearly and elegantly written, and drawing on the author s deep
knowledge of psychoanalysis and attachment theory and a lifetime of
clinical experience, Holmes convincingly links the literary and
psychoanalytic canon. "The Therapeutic Imagination "is a compelling
and insightful work that will strike chords for therapists,
counsellors, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists and psychologists."
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