Literary Inspirations in Therapeutic Conversations: a Systemic Perspective

‘Literary inspirations in therapeutic conversations: a systemic perspective’

References

Burnham, J. (2005) Relational Reflexivity: a tool for socially constructing therapeutic relationships. In C. Flaskas, B.Mason, A. Perlesz (eds) The Space Between: Experience, Context and Process in the Therapeutic Relationship. London: Karnac

Burns, L (2009) Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View. London : Karnac

Coleridge, S.T. and Gustave Dore (2010) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. London: Arcturus Publishing

Cox, M. and Theilgaard, A. (1994). Shakespeare as Prompter: The Amending Imagination and the Therapeutic Process. London: Jessica Kingsley Publications.

Schore, A, N, (2010) The right brain implicit self: A central mechanism of the psychotherapy change process. In Petrucelli, J. (ed) ‘Knowing, Not Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing; Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty. London: Karnac

Watzlawick, P., Weakland, J.H. and Fisch, R. (1974). Change: principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution. New York: Norton.

Woolf, V. (1927/1992) To the Lighthouse London: Penguin Books

Woolf, V. (1985). Moments of Being: a collection of autobiographical writing. Orlando, Fa.: Harcourt.

Literary inspirations (texts)

Rupert the Bear Daily Express (1920 - )

Stephen King novels and short stories.

Milly Molly Mandy stories by Joyce Lankester Brisley

Oedipus the King Sophocles

Oresteia Aeschylus

Hamlet Shakespeare

King Lear Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare

To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

Moments of Being (especially A Sketch of the Past) Virginia Woolf

A room of one’s own Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Images

1. Rupert Bear Annual
2. Rupert Bear Daily Express
3. Milly Molly Mandy Joyce Lankester Brisley
4. Milly Molly Mandy and family
5. Oedipus the King (mask)
6. Orestes slaying Clytemnestra (his mother) and Aegisthus. Roman sarcophagus
7. Orestes pursued by the Furies. John Singer Sargent
8. Ophelia. John Everett Millais
9. Cordelia's Portion. Ford Madox Ford
10. Romeo and Juliet. John Everett Millais
11. View from St. Ives
12. Virginia Woolf with her parents Leslie and Julia Stephen
13. St. Ives bay with Godrevy Lighthouse
14. Dinner table set with candles
15. Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Adrian Stephen and dog
16. Talland House, St. Ives
17. Virginia Woolf knitting. Vanessa Bell
18. '...with my cross-bow/ I shot the albatross.' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, illustrated by Gustave Dore
19. 'Beyond the shadow of the ship,/I watched the water-snakes:' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, illustrated by Gustave Dore
20. Godrevy Lighthouse, St Ives bay
21. Ornamental Garden. Roger Fry
22. Ornamental Garden. Roger Fry
23. Blythburgh. Roger Fry