Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpr.2021.36.1.40
Leanne Gassert
My relationships with my therapists are fundamental to my narrative of becoming a psychotherapist. This paper outlines the path from my troubled childhood, drawing on many years of being a client in therapy, towards my shift to the therapist’s chair. Grounded in intersubjectivity theory and using the psychoanalytic theories of Winnicott (1965) and Bion (1962), I explore how my experience of being a client and becoming a person is shaping my practice as a psychotherapist. Additionally, I seek to deconstruct the notion of the ‘wounded healer’ and conceptualise the work of a psychotherapist using the idea of the ‘healing wounded’.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpr.2021.36.1.48
S. Rowbottom
‘Pictures are forming inside my brain Soon with the colours they’ll rain together and grow Then don’t you know, don’t you know, there’ll be music.’From ‘Music’ by Carole King.To explore individual narratives of a therapist’s route to entering the profession, I undertook a self-critical analysis of personal experiences, emotional understandings, and meaning making of my life prior to becoming a counselling psychologist. Pathways to entering a psychotherapeutic profession are nuanced, and idiosyncratic, so rather than the ubiquitous ‘wounded healer’ narrative being the sole applicable metaphor for my life journey, I draw out another metaphor more pertinent to my particular experience: the music of therapy.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpr.2021.36.1.31
Tree Staunton
This article represents a brief overview of 40 years as a therapist, from my first role in the NHS to my work today. It describes my struggle to become embodied and to learn to understand and integrate my body’s messages over time. It suggests that the body is a vital part of the therapeutic process, encompassing concepts of embodiment and body identity, the body as character and messenger of the unconscious, the keeper of the psyche’s secrets, dreams and memories. In reflecting on our current global climate crisis it suggests how psychological insights and connection to our embodied selves can assist us to come to terms with our future on a critically endangered planet.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpr.2021.36.1.15
M. Milton
By taking an historical, although not always linear, approach to events in my childhood, adolescence and adulthood, this paper reflects on how I became a counselling psychologist. The process was characterised by a gradual progression that included periods of uncertainty, of wanting to be ‘a therapist’ of some sort, and to eventually finding a professional identity as a counselling psychologist. In particular, the paper reflects on personal and political dimensions of events that occurred in the UK, Africa and the US and the meanings that are so intimately wound up in these.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpr.2021.36.1.24
Patricia M. Bond
A narrative of my developmental trauma is presented. This trauma would not hit the headlines – it was ‘ordinary’, nobody’s fault, just ‘one of those things’. It did however have follow-on effects on emotional difficulties I had as a teenager and adult, on life choices, and on later becoming, and working as, a counsellor. I suggest the metaphor of dance as illustrating the benefit of having a trauma history.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpr.2020.35.2.11
Áine Lombard
The purpose of this study was to identify what family members and/or carers of individuals affected by cancer found helpful in therapy.Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with six individuals who had completed psychological therapy within a charitable organisation for people affected by cancer. The data collected were thematically analysed.Participants reported a range of helpful processes in therapy: talking and being open with someone outside of the family; building a trusting and safe relationship with a non-judgemental therapist who listened; normalisation of their experience as the therapist had specialised knowledge; being supported and strengthening their resources to cope with overwhelming and distressing feelings.These findings suggest that the unique perspectives of carers and/or family members can increase our understanding of the helpful processes of individual psychotherapy in cancer care settings and improve our delivery of services to this client population.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpr.2020.35.2.2
A. Jordan
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpr.2020.35.2.76
Eva Pastor
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