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The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy
J. M. Coetzee
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Description for The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy
Paperback. Presents an exchange between a writer with a longstanding interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. In this book, they consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stories. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DN; JM; MMJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 152.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099598220
SKU
V9780099598220
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About J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime and The Childhood of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. Arabella Kurtz is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and is completing psychoanalytic psychotherapy training at the Tavistock Clinic. She has held various posts in NHS adult and forensic mental health services and is currently Senior Clinical Tutor on the University of Leicester clinical psychology training course.
Reviews for The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy
It is the Man Booker prize-winning novelist's agenda that drives the absorbing discussions of this book. Kurtz's pieces are replies to Coetzee's questions, and as such are insightful for both [psychoanalysis and novel-writing]
Gerard Woodward
Independent
Coetzee and Kurtz range freely across space and time, from ancient spells of bewitchment to the confessions of celebrities in magazines. Their arguments have a meditative quality, challenging, and helpfully open-ended
Lewis Jones
Newsweek Europe
Coetzee's writing is characteristically spare and penetrating... Kurtz proves both a lucid expositor and an evocative literary stylist, bringing psychoanalytic ideas and practices to life with rare precision and immediacy
Josh Cohen
Literary Review
[Arabella Kurtz] writes with wonderful eloquence about imagination and the self, parrying Coetzee's relentless unmasking with her gently intelligent demurral
Tessa Hadley
Guardian
Coetzee is an exceptionally clear thinker, and his gift for expressing complex concepts through considered, precise prose is impressive
Totally Dublin
Gerard Woodward
Independent
Coetzee and Kurtz range freely across space and time, from ancient spells of bewitchment to the confessions of celebrities in magazines. Their arguments have a meditative quality, challenging, and helpfully open-ended
Lewis Jones
Newsweek Europe
Coetzee's writing is characteristically spare and penetrating... Kurtz proves both a lucid expositor and an evocative literary stylist, bringing psychoanalytic ideas and practices to life with rare precision and immediacy
Josh Cohen
Literary Review
[Arabella Kurtz] writes with wonderful eloquence about imagination and the self, parrying Coetzee's relentless unmasking with her gently intelligent demurral
Tessa Hadley
Guardian
Coetzee is an exceptionally clear thinker, and his gift for expressing complex concepts through considered, precise prose is impressive
Totally Dublin