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Autoethnography in Therapy: Exploring Therapist Emotions in Work with Self Injury

Autor Joanna Naxton
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Autoethnography in Therapy offers a compelling, emotionally rich exploration of the inner experiences of therapists working with clients who self-injure. Through evocative narrative and critical reflection, Joanna Naxton brings to light the emotional labour of therapeutic work—fear, doubt, shame, burnout, and existential anxiety—drawing on her clinical practice, personal story, and doctoral research.This unique book blends humanistic and integrative counselling theory with autoethnographic method and creative expression, including original artwork, to examine how therapists’ emotional responses shape and are shaped by their work. Key themes include countertransference, projective identification, therapeutic rupture, and the ethical challenges of emotional proximity and detachment. The author’s candid reflections encourage a more open, compassionate understanding of what it means to be emotionally present in therapy.This is an essential resource for counselling and psychotherapy professionals, supervisors, and trainees, as well as educators and researchers in psychology, mental health, and qualitative research. It will particularly benefit those interested in autoethnographic inquiry, trauma work, reflective practice, and therapist well-being.By placing therapist emotions at the centre of inquiry, Autoethnography in Therapy expands how we think about therapeutic relationships, emotional resilience, and the mutual vulnerability at the heart of the healing process.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781041120223
ISBN-10: 1041120222
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 70
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Cuprins

IntroductionDefining Self-Injury, Situating Autoethnography, and Framing Therapist EmotionsExploring Emotional Landscapes in Work with Self-InjuryA Rhizomatic Approach to Emotional Complexity in TherapyAutoethnography as MethodReflective Practice, Ethical Tensions, and Narrative ConstructionInterplay of Fear and AngerCompartmentalisation, Emotional Regulation, and Early ExperiencesCountertransference and DoubtProfessional Insecurity, Projection, and Emotional DefencesProjection and Projective IdentificationAbsorbing Client Emotions and Confronting Therapeutic BoundariesThe Terror of the Threat to ImmortalitySelf-Injury, Existential Anxiety, and the Therapist’s MortalityVoyeuristic Desire and FascinationScopophilia, Erotic Transference, and the Ethics of CuriosityLoneliness and SadnessBearing Witness to Pain and the Personal Cost of EmpathySelf-Care and Addressing BurnoutEmotional Survival, Restorative Practices, and BoundariesGrief, Letting Go, and ReturnNondual Consciousness, Radical Acceptance, and Emotional IntegrationThe Process and LearningWriting, Reflecting, and Transforming Through AutoethnographyKey Emotional ExperiencesThematic Synthesis of Fear, Shame, Desire, and VulnerabilityImplications and RecommendationsEmotional Support in Supervision, Training, and PracticeConclusion and Future DirectionsEmotional Truth, Mutual Vulnerability, and a Call for Further Research

Notă biografică

Joanna Naxton is a psychological therapist, PhD candidate, and lecturer with over a decade of experience working with adults, children, and young people in therapeutic settings. Her integrative approach is grounded in humanistic and person-centred principles, drawing on a range of modalities including psychodynamic and existential theory, Transactional Analysis, attachment theory, and creative practices such as SandPlay therapy.

Recenzii

“This thoughtful and well-crafted volume stems from years of personal experience and current research in the field. At the turn of every page, Jo leads us through sensitive areas of practice that therapists will find enlightening, revealing her skills as author, thinker and enabler to the profession.”
Dr Clive Palmer, University of Lancashire, UK
 
Autoethnography in Therapy: Exploring Therapist Emotions in Work with Self Injury, is a vulnerable, unflinching, compassionate text that speaks into the silence surrounding the experience of therapists who work with those who self-injure. Jo Naxton's writing is full, warm, urgent, affecting. This is a unique and important book.”
Jonathan Wyatt, Professor of Qualitative Inquiry and co-director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh, UK

Descriere

This evocative autoethnography offers an intimate exploration of the emotional life of therapists working with clients who self-injure. Blending personal narrative with theory, it confronts the often-hidden world of therapeutic practice – fear, shame, anger, voyeuristic impulses, and a persistent undercurrent of existential anxiety.