Description
Part 1 Existentialism; phenomenology; humanism; Martin Buber - his life and ideas; Buber's contribution to the therapeutic conversation; meeting; imagining the real and inclusion; confirmation; a personal reflection. Part 2 Bibliotherapy - the art of book-healing; the power story; mapping the therapeutic conversation; the systematic map; the structural map; the developmental map; the psychodynamic map; the communicational map; the transgenerational map; the analytic - 'reductive into parts' map; the feminist map; the holistic map; the spiritual map. Part 3 Creating tales of empowerment; the learning levels of Gregory Bateson and Buber's genuine dialogue; the quality of the therapeutic conversation; structuring tales of empowerment. Appendices: Love, pain and the whole damn thing - a marital history in verse; some useful questions.