The rights to 'Who is it that can tell me who I am?' have been purchased by Constable Robinson. A new and enlarged second edition of the book will be available in all bookshops and from Amazon in February 2009. There are currently still a few copies available of the first edition via Amazon and on order through national bookshops. The interested reader can still access Hilary Mantel's introduction and the first 15 pages of Chapter one via this website.
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Jane Haynes originally worked as an actress at the Royal Court Theatre. After she met R.D. Laing and read his book The Divided Self she gave up the theatre and became involved with Laing's work at Kinglsey Hall and later trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst.
In the course of clinical practice - over time - Haynes has moved away from the theoretical position of a classical psychoanalyst to that of a psychotherapist who considers that it is the combination of dialogue - within an ethical therapeutic relationship - and a trained ear that are the essential ingredients of 'The Talking Cure'.
The consulting room is a space where, to borrow a
phrase from John Donne, 'souls negotiate'. It is a space is which secrets can
be spoken - where they feel, perhaps after many years underground, the first
shock of light and air. The force for change that is unleashed in the
consulting room is not a one-way process; the wise therapist changes too, and
Jane Haynes shows how this happens. There is nothing formulaic about the
dialogue she holds with her patients, and nothing doctrinaire.
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