ABSTRACT
Counsellors and psychotherapist with a constructivist outlook integrate their practice, as Weaver puts it, “from the principle that there is more than one true judgement of the world. Counsellors and psychotherapists are just as likely as researchers to affect the outcome of the work due to their own personal investment. Susan McGrath shares her experiences of therapeutic practice with reference to a session where Susan’s thinking about what brought her into therapy comes to the surface. While many of the other group members trace their motives for working as therapist to childhood, in one way or another, Susan relates the category of therapists who, in the survey, referred to “adult crisis” as a trigger for their interest in therapy. Sherna Ghyara Chatterjee lives in India and the UK and works in private practice and within the National Health Service as psychoanalytic therapist informed by intercultural theory. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
