The good story : exchanges on truth, fiction and psychotherapy
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Author
Contributors
Kurtz, Arabella, author.
Published
New York : Viking, and imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2015].
Physical Description
viii, 198 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Laramie County Community College - Main Collection
RC437.5 .C64 2015
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RC437.5 .C64 2015
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Laramie County Community College - Main Collection | RC437.5 .C64 2015 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Viking, and imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2015].
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
First published in Great Britain by Harvill Secker.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary
"The Good Story" is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. Arabella Kurtz and J.M. Coetzee 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? The authors discuss both individual psychology and the psychology of the group: the school classroom, the gang, the settler nation where the brutal deeds of the ancestors have to be accommodated into a national story. Drawing on great writers like Cervantes and Dostoevsky and on psychoanalysts like Freud and Melanie Klein, they offer illuminating insights into the stories we tell of our lives.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Coetzee, J. M., & Kurtz, A. (2015). The good story: exchanges on truth, fiction and psychotherapy . Viking, and imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Coetzee, J. M., 1940- and Arabella, Kurtz. 2015. The Good Story: Exchanges On Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy. Viking, and imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Coetzee, J. M., 1940- and Arabella, Kurtz. The Good Story: Exchanges On Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy Viking, and imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Coetzee, J. M., and Arabella Kurtz. The Good Story: Exchanges On Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy Viking, and imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015.
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