Volume 9
10 records, editorials first, then in page order.
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Editorial
Editorial for Vol. 9, 2019.
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Separated Motherhood: Exploring the experience of mothering premature twins and psychotherapeutic implications
The experience of giving birth prematurely presents a stressful and challenging time for new mothers, who often spend extensive time with their children in specialist intensive care hospital settings.
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I’m human too: Person-centred counsellors’ lived experiences of therapist self-disclosure
Therapist self-disclosure (TSD) is an issue shrouded in debate, risk, and uncertainty. This study explores person-centred counsellors’ lived experiences of it.
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Emotional labour and the practicing psychologist: When the psychologist’s professional emotions go awry
The present study considers practicing psychologists’ accounts when their own emotional reactions within the therapeutic relationship are troubling and unwanted.
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The case of the disappearing twin: How writing brought me closer to my self
Using writing as a means of inquiry, I aim to analyse a change over time in my creative writing and consider what this change tells me about myself.
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Two-eyed seeing, arts-based reflection and collaboration: Reflexivity tools for nursing practitioners working across cultures
This paper explores how the use of reflexivity provided a structural framework for a doctoral student as she conducted a literature review and worked across cultures.
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An exploration of the unassisted gravity dream
Flying dreams are termed ‘gravity dreams,’ along with dreams that include falling, climbing, descending and floating. Phenomenological studies looking at flying dreams are scarce.
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Integrative therapists’ subjective experiences and understanding of emotional connection in their practice
Despite abundant literature on the therapeutic relationship, the experience of emotional connection in therapy from psychotherapists’ perspective remains under-explored.
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“I’ve got this hole…”: Experiences of therapist involuntary childlessness with clients in therapeutic practice
Little has been written on how therapists experience their practice in relation to involuntary childlessness.
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Therapists and Academic Writing: “Once upon a time psychotherapy practitioners and researchers were the same people”
The views and feelings of psychotherapists around academic writing were explored using a mixed methods approach.