Engaging with a history of counselling, spirituality and faith in Scotland: a readers' theatre script

Willis, Alette; Bondi, Liz; Burgess, MaryCatherine; Miller, Gavin; Fergusson, David

doi:10.1080/03069885.2014.928667

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“…What emerges from this examination of Schneersohn’s work is a sense that psychotherapy can be a wandering phenomenon that takes place in a variety of unusual spaces, including within the liminal spaces between the minds and anxieties of those experiencing mental distress and the doctors, psychologists, and therapists trying to make sense of mental life. The focus on engaging with the development of (scientific) practice in specific places (see Livingstone, 2003) and the understanding of how individualized case histories could be considered an important form of localized knowledge production (McGeachan, 2013) lead to the possibility of opening up “more complex and differentiated accounts of the role of historically and geographically contextualised traditions of psychotherapy in relation to specific cultural landscapes” (Bondi, 2009, p. 9; see also Willis et al., 2014). Similarly, Freis examines ‘psycho-expeditions’ in order to highlight the deep connections to Hasidism and Schneersohn’s spaces of childhood that this psychotherapeutic practice entails.…”

Section: Psychotherapeutic Geographiesmentioning

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“Other psychotherapies”: Healing interactions across time, geography, and culture

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McGeachan

Miller

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Transcult Psychiatry

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This article introduces the special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry entitled “Other Psychotherapies”: Healing Interactions across Time, Geographies, and Cultures. This special issue is intended to highlight that, rather than being exclusively a modern phenomenon, variants of psychotherapeutic practice have existed for millennia in diverse sociocultural contexts. This article explores the historical development of Western psychotherapy and points to the important contribution that Greco-Roman scholars from antiquity made to contemporary understandings of mental states and emotional wellbeing. The ways in which healing interactions have been localized to reflect the local cultural and geographic contexts are also highlighted through a discussion of recent work in psychotherapeutic geographies. This allows us to identify commonalities and differences between various forms of psychotherapy. We also consider how particular subcultures may influence the future development of psychotherapy. This article serves to foreshadow the themes that are explored in more detail in the collection of articles that make up the “Other Psychotherapies” special issue. The various articles that contribute to the special issue are introduced, and the key issues explored by these articles briefly highlighted. The intention of the special issue is to facilitate an opportunity to appreciate the ways in which psychotherapies are a product of the epoch, setting, and institutions that shape people’s lives.

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Section: Psychotherapeutic Geographiesmentioning

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“Other psychotherapies”: Healing interactions across time, geography, and culture

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Miller

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Transcult Psychiatry

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“…Leavy (2015) contends that public ABR can generate "empathy" and "self-reflection" (p. 2). Willis et al (2014) says that this sort of approach is now "attracting increasing attention in the field of counselling and psychotherapy" (p. 526), citing Meekums' (2011) special issue of the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling as one example. Speaking of ethnotheatre, Saldana (1999) explains that only editing which "will not affect the integrity of the voice or quality of the data" (p. 63) is permitted.…”

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Enter centre stage, the case study…

Lee¹

2018

Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy

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This existentially-informed person-centred paper argues that current conceptualisations of 'case studies' (beloved of psychotherapy training and beyond), can reduce complex/beautiful human beings to flat/objectified characters defined by 'presenting problems' -'presenting problems' which clever therapists 'fix'. In response, the paper develops an arts-based approach: a collaborative, respectful/ethical, narrative 'case study', written as a playa piece of public psychotherapy available for the audience's responses. The play seeks particularly to convey the warmth of encounters between two rounded/unique characters, Deborah and Kate, offering a challenge to the 'us' and 'them' approach of many 'case studies'; it contends that if this is achieved, it is thisrather than narrow/sterile advice about 'assessment', 'formulation' and 'interventions'which establishes the usefulness of the work.

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“…This form of transcription follows the natural rhythms of speech (Kendall and Murray ), with the intention of making it more immediate and accessible to the reader (see Willis et al . for further discussion of poetic transcription). The women's stories and our reflections are brought into dialogue with themes within human geography in the final section.…”

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Spaces of dissociation: the impact of childhood sexual abuse on the personal geographies of adult survivors

Willis

Prior

Canavan

2015

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The experiences of survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) have received almost no attention in geography. However, activists and therapists working with survivors have long recognised that CSA has spatial impacts and that finding some sense of control over one's environment is an important step in recovering from this trauma. By bringing the stories of three adult women who are survivors of CSA into conversation with debates in human geography about the habitation of space and place, this psychosocial paper goes some small way towards addressing this oversight. Set in the context of the high prevalence of CSA in all communities, we argue that efforts to understand everyday, domestic and marginalised geographies need to consider the potential impact of abuse. By understanding psychosocial pathways by which abuse impacts on individuals we highlight how violence and trauma can impact on personal geographies in a myriad of ways.

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Engaging with a history of counselling, spirituality and faith in Scotland: a readers' theatre script

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

“Other psychotherapies”: Healing interactions across time, geography, and culture

“Other psychotherapies”: Healing interactions across time, geography, and culture

Enter centre stage, the case study…

Spaces of dissociation: the impact of childhood sexual abuse on the personal geographies of adult survivors

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