'Who is it that can tell me who I am?'

The journal of a psychotherapist

Jane Haynes

Foreword by Hilary Mantel

ISBN-10: 0955057981
ISBN-13: 978-0955057984

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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. more...

Hilary Mantel

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