Issue 5
8 records, editorials first, then in page order.
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Celebrating new ‘voices’
The articles in this issue are diverse in terms of their focus, style and substance. The authors come from different fields of psychotherapy and vary in their experience.
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Writer’s Block: a reflective literature review
For a significant proportion of therapists, the mere thought of writing up research academically and then publishing is anxiety provoking.
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Lived Experience of a Permanent Rupture Between Mother and Daughter
This research explores the lived experience of the rupture in the relationship between Jenny (a pseudonym) and her mother. In a relational-centred research interview, Jenny shares her experience of the rupture and her relationship after it.
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‘Life After Delivery’: a phenomenological enquiry into one woman’s experience
This research explores one woman’s experience following the birth of a child using a phenomenological, relational-centred research approach.
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A Phenomenological Exploration of Tattooing: A Personal and Meaning-filled Experience
This paper explores what one woman’s tattoos subjectively mean to her in the context of her life, merging a dialogical-relational Gestalt theoretical base with a relational-hermeneutic approach.
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The Value and Cost of Mandatory Personal Therapy
Counselling psychology trainees in the UK are obliged to undertake a minimum of 40 hours of personal therapy. This paper is part of a wider doctoral study on how this mandatory therapy is experienced.
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“It’s because of what we did that I’m going to university”: A qualitative exploration of the experience of growing through a school’s therapeutic programme
This study aimed to ‘give voice’ to the lived experience and perceptions of seven students who have used a therapeutic service in school.
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Supervision and Training of Psychotherapists in an Indian Therapeutic Community
The process of getting therapy supervision while working in a therapeutic community setting with persons suffering from chronic mental illness differs from those working in other clinical settings.