ABSTRACT
This chapter provides few of the texts which are helpful reading for the journey of personal and professional development. It aims to say something about the craft of the therapist, which is to reach an integration of theory in practice. Family therapists started out with the theory of systems, including those of communication and control, and learned how they might be applied to family structures, sequences of behaviour, and beliefs. Memoir is a subset of autobiography based upon memories, and is a subjective take on a person's own lived experience. Learning involves a continuous interaction between thinking and doing, theory and practice. The use of literary examples not only facilitates this process but also anchors it in the emotional life of the learner. Practitioners who have survived a crisis of confidence can go forward to generate new and more robust theory and practice wisdom, either for their own use or for public consumption.
