Our Desire of Unrest: Thinking About Therapy
Part of The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy series - more in this series
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2009
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 208
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 25484
- ISBN 13 : 9781855754898
- ISBN 10 : 1855754894
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Knowledge is never static. It is always open to revolutionary thinking or to evolving development. Similarly an individual's knowledge is always moving, and indeed if the ability to think about ideas is lost, an important part of the individual is also lost. In this book, a collection of some of the papers and lectures written by Michael Jacobs over a period of thirty or more years, the author shows his own thinking at work, as he challenges himself to look deeper at some important aspects of his discipline - principally psychodynamic psychotherapy, although always with reference to other forms of discourse such as literature and theology. Here the reader will find the writer behind those popular texts such as The Presenting Past, Psychodynamic Counselling in Action and Shakespeare on the Couch.
Reviews and Endorsements
'Michael Jacobs is an important, influential, erudite and humane voice within counselling and psychotherapy, urging us to consider what we do not know and to live and work with more complexity.'
- Susie Orbach, Psychoanalyst
'For more than thirty years, Michael Jacobs has occupied a seminal position in the training and education of psychotherapists and counsellors in Great Britain and beyond. In his latest book... Jacobs takes us on an engrossing intellectual journey as he revisits crucial turning points in his development as both theoretician and practitioner... he helps us to explore a number of often neglected topics, such as fame and fate, the psychology of optimism and pessimism, and the study of the therapist's relationship to the idea of revenge. A beautiful amalgamation of personal and professional vignettes and observations, this book will engage all of us who work in the psychological arena.'
- Brett Kahr, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health, London
'This is a worthwhile read and the use of theological and literary references gives depth and resonance to the read.'
- T.B. Broll, New Therapist
About the Author(s)
Michael Jacobs was born in 1941. He was educated at Dulwich College and Exeter College Oxford; and then attended Chichester Theological College before being ordained in 1965. Having served in a parish in Walthamstow, he was interdenominational chaplain at the University of Sussex from 1968–1972, during which time he started practising as a therapist with support from the Student Health Service, then headed by Anthony Ryle. In 1972 he was appointed psychotherapist and counsellor at the University of Leicester Student Health Service, and trained on the clinical psychology psychotherapy course at the Tavistock Clinic in London. After twelve years in the Student Health Service, he moved to the Department of Adult Education, where he was developing a counselling training, which went on to include a psychotherapy training. Alongside this he played a significant role in the development of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association. He is a fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a Fellow of the National Society for Counselling and Psychotherapy and an honorary fellow of the Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling. He had his first book published in 1982 and has since written or edited over sixty books for a number of publishers. Following a stroke in 1999 he retired from the University of Leicester, and moved to Swanage where for a number of years he was Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University. Apart from his writing and teaching he conducted a small practice of therapy and supervision. He continued also to lead workshops largely devoted to his interest in the development of thinking and belief, and psychoanalysis and film. Studying for another degree he was awarded first class honours by the Open University, and went on to complete a PhD comparing psychoanalytic and literary criticism of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Michael has been married three times, separating from his first wife Valerie in 1989, and marrying Moira Walker. They worked together on various series and teaching at Leicester and Bournemouth Universities. Following her early death in 2013, Michael married Pamela Howdle-Smith, with whom he now enjoys a more complete retirement, in which they appreciate music, literature, fine food, and reflecting on their earlier busy lives in teaching and therapy. He has two daughters by his first marriage, two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
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