The Good Story
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Product details:
- Publisher Vintage
- Date of Publication 24 May 2016
- Number of Volumes B-format paperback
- ISBN 9780099598220
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 198x129x13 mm
- Weight 153 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Arabella Kurtz and J.M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy from different perspectives. But at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stories. This fascinating book asks what it is that makes good story, both in literature and in life, and questions the value of psychotherapy, the possibility of objective truth in narrative and the way that our stories change us.
MoreLong description:
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.
