Healing Through Meeting

Part 1 Existentialism; phenomenology; humanism; Martin Buber - his life and ideas; Buber's contribution to the therapeutic conversation; meeting; imagining the real and inclusion; confirmation; a personal reflection. Part 2 Bibliotherapy - the art of book-healing; the power story; mapping the therapeutic conversation; the systematic map; the structural map; the developmental map; the psychodynamic map; the communicational map; the transgenerational map; the analytic - 'reductive into parts' map; the feminist map; the holistic map; the spiritual map. Part 3 Creating tales of empowerment; the learning levels of Gregory Bateson and Buber's genuine dialogue; the quality of the therapeutic conversation; structuring tales of empowerment. Appendices: Love, pain and the whole damn thing - a marital history in verse; some useful questions.

It is my hope that by reading this work, you will find the new ideas and learnings that will occur will enrich your lives as you will find courage and greater strengths inspired by the stories told.