Muse as Therapist

Taylor & Francis

There has been a cautious movement towards seeing psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences. This title explores this movement in terms of poetry; therapy; dreams; literary texts; Heideggerian, Kantian, and post-modern philosophy; the modern developmental theorising of Daniel Stern; and, the politics of psychotherapy regulation. > In recent years there has been a cautious movement towards seeing psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences. In this rich, yet rigorous, multidisciplinary text, this movement is explored in terms of poetry; therapy; dreams; literary texts; Heideggerian, Kantian, and post-modern philosophy; the modern developmental theorising of Daniel S > Introduction -- Therapy is Poetry -- A Therapeutic Dialogue -- Poetry or Existence?\u2014Poetry Dialogues with Philosophy Dialogues with Poetry -- Reality, Existence, and the Shakespeare Authorship Question: King Lear, Little Dorrit, and the Man Who Was Shakespeare -- Poetic Enactment and Propy