ISBN: 9781855755246    Publisher: Karnac Books Year of publishing: 2008     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 268        

This is an exploration of the extensive intra-personal, interpersonal and group dynamic landscape of human experience pertinent to the understanding of the human shadow in the training of psychotherapists. Using phenomenological enquiry this book invites unique, in-depth experiences, provides new insights and addresses the complexities and diversities inherent in the emergence and containment of shadow experience in psychotherapy training. This book takes the reader through a process of qualitative research and invites the reader to explore his or her own relationships to the love of others, through the exploration of all the things that love is not. It argues that without hate we cannot truly love. Interspersed throughout the book are suggestions for personal exploration and it is hoped that reading this book will both stimulate practitioners to a process of self-reflection and questioning, and also support practitioner researchers in their own journey to self-understanding.
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Prior to coming into the psychotherapy profession, Kate Wilkinson had fifteen years experience in the National Health Service. This was primarily as a psychiatric nurse in acute in-patient settings that housed 'seclusion' rooms for potentially aggressive patients. She has challenged her colleague trainers and institute leaders to explore the place of shadow phenomena in the caring profession of psychotherapy.
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