The World Library of Mental Health celebrates the important
contributions to mental health made by leading experts in their
individual fields. Each author has compiled a career-long
collection of what they consider to be their finest pieces:
extracts from books, journals, articles, major theoretical and
practical contributions, and salient research findings.
Miller Mair, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, devoted
his life to developing a psychology that provided a radical
alternative to the behavioural, and latterly cognitive-behavioural,
approaches that have dominated the field. He presented this work in
a wide range of publications and conference papers, and prior to
his untimely death in 2011 he had selected a number of these for a
volume of his collected works. This book is based upon Miller s
selection, and includes several previously unpublished papers as
well as others that are now out of print.
Miller was considerably influenced by George Kelly s personal
construct psychology, as is apparent in most of his writings.
However, his papers on psychology and psychotherapy also draw upon
an extraordinarily wide range of other fields of knowledge,
including imagery; metaphor; storytelling and narrative; rhetoric;
discourse and conversation; poetry; and spirituality. These
concerns are reflected in the contributions selected for this
volume, which also demonstrate the variation in his style of
writing from the more conventionally academic to the personal and
poetic as he developed a poetics of experience and a stance of
conversational inquiry .
Miller s final publication was entitled Enchanting psychology,
and it is hoped that this volume will provide an antidote to the
disenchantment that many readers may feel with mechanistic and
reductionist approaches in psychology and its clinical
applications, and more generally in health service rhetoric and
policies. As these writings vividly demonstrate, a clinical
psychologist and psychotherapist can, and should, also be a poet,
artist, and storyteller. The volume will be of value to readers
previously unfamiliar with Miller s ideas, but also to those who
know his work, who will find here the first published selection of
his papers."
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