Our Desire of Unrest: Thinking About Therapy

by Michael Jacobs

Overview

Knowledge is never static. It is always open to revolutionary thinking or to evolving development. Similarly an individual’s knowledge is always moving, and indeed if the ability to think about ideas is lost, an important part of the individual is also lost. In this book, a collection of some of the papers and lectures written by Michael Jacobs over a period of thirty or more years, the author shows his own thinking at work, as he challenges himself to look deeper at some important aspects of his discipline – principally psychodynamic psychotherapy, although always with reference to other forms of discourse such as literature and theology. Here the reader will find the writer behind those popular texts such as The Presenting Past, Psychodynamic Counselling in Action, and Shakespeare on the Couch.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855754898
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Series:	The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy Series
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Jacobs is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University, and in independent practice in Swanage, Dorset, where he supervises counselors, sees clients and continues to write and edit. Prior to retirement he was Director of the Counseling and Psychotherapy program at the University of Leicester for 15 years, and prior to that, a therapist in the Student Health Service at the same University for 12 years. His books on psychodynamic counselling and therapy are used as key texts on many training courses.

Table of Contents

Preface — Challenging the stereotype: the psychoanalytic therapist's use of self — Our desire of unrest — Naming and labelling — Optimism and pessimism — The therapist's revenge: the law of talion as a motive for caring — Parallel process: confirmation and critique — Seeing and being seen — The significance of fame — Have we lost fate? — A maturing professional approach