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The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy

By Coetzee , J M; Kurtz , Arabella

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2015
ISBN
9780099598220, 0099598221, 9780143109822, 0143109820, 9780525429517, 0525429514, 978-0-698-40521-9, 0698405218, 9781473512290, 1473512298, 9781846558887, 1846558883, 9781846558894, 1846558891
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
424 kB (434011 bytes)
Series
Viking
Pages
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Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00

Description

A fascinating dialogue on the human desire to make up stories between Nobel Prize–winning author J. M. Coetzee and psychotherapist Arabella Kurtz The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with training in literary studies. Coetzee and Kurtz consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a fascination with narrative. Working alone, the writer is in control of the story he or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates with the patient in telling the story that might reveal the "truth." The authors discuss both individual psychology and the psychology of the group: the school classroom, the gang, the settler nation in which the brutal deeds of the ancestors must be accommodated into a national story. In a meeting of the minds that is illuminating, surprising, and thought...

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