Wilkinson Heward - The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy

INTRODUCTION
Discovering the Poetic Mystery at the Heart of Psychotherapy: An Unexpected Personal Journey

CHAPTER ONE
Therapy is Poetry

CHAPTER TWO
A Therapeutic Dialogue

CHAPTER THREE
Poetry or Existence?Poetry Dialogues with Philosophy Dialogues with Poetry

CHAPTER FOUR
Reality, Existence, and the Shakespeare Authorship Question: King Lear, Little Dorrit, and the Man Who Was Shakespeare

CHAPTER FIVE
Poetic Enactment and Propositional Truth: Poetry and Objectivity

CHAPTER SIX
Epilogue: The Poetry and Politics of Psychotherapy

Acknowledgement of those who have been part of ones journey, as both influences and as catalysts, is a joy. There are many who have played a part, and yet are too many to be named, or about whom I have to be silent for other reasons. And, with such a late first book, there are some, named or unnamed, who are, alas, now precious friends hid in deaths dateless night (Shakespeare, Sonnet 30).

These catalysts include many of my students in one setting or another over the years who have been inspirational, provocative, and kind to me, and at the same time goads and thorns in my side, and necessary in their challenges. I wish particularly to acknowledge the members of my Scarborough Integrative Psychotherapy training group, Karen Davies-Hough, June Norris, Stephen Brindley, Sue Dennis, Carol Webster, Irena Kurowska. Those I have taught at the Minster Centre and at University College Cork who have impacted me are alas too numerous to name specifically.

I bear in my heart and mind the creative imprint of so many clients over the years, some of whom do know the influence they have had upon me, and some who do not know. To all of them I repeat with love the words Beethoven wrote upon the title page of his Missa Solemnis :

Von Herzenmgen es weiderzu Herzen gehen

(From the heartmay it go againto the heart).

Many people in the early days of UKCP, when it was even still the Rugby Psychotherapy Conference, and then the United Kingdom Standing Conference for Psychotherapy, played a huge part in enabling me to find myself. I wish specially to acknowledge Alan Lidmila, Dorothy Hamilton, Elspeth Morley, Michael Pokorny, Haya Oakley, and Deryck Dyne. The support of colleagues in the Human-istic and Integrative Section of UKCP, too numerous to mention, have been essential in the background of this book. And, scrapping with the catalytic culture and community of the Metanoia Doctorate, has been a major goad in enabling me to find the determination, and compel the articulation, to finish my book. From my days as a Nurse Tutor I wish to acknowledge the support and creative space I received from Terry Whyke, Roy Saunders, David Brendan McGinnity, and my friend Martin Gajos. From the depths of past relationships to revered teachers and icons, I wish to mention Pat Maguire, Lance Marshall, FR Leavis, Otto Klemperer, John Wisdom.

My mother Kathleen, father Cuthbert, and Elsa and Pip Whiston, gave grounding love which enabled me over the years to overcome my obstacles to the extent which I have done. Cherished Friends, Colleagues, and Elders, part of my inspiration over the years, include Brian Lake, Laura Donington, Ken and Mairi Evans, Mike Phillips, Robert Duffy, Deborah Bartlett, Irene Farmer, Jenny Corrigall, Kate Wilkinson, Sue Aylwin, Maggie Forbes, Janet Croft, Snezana Milenkovic, Ann Sayers, Mary Winspear, Steve Silverton, Ioan Waight, Patricia and Eduardo Pitchon, James Grotstein, Dan Dorman, Derek Portwood, Paul Barber, and Alice Maher.

The teamwork of UKCP and Karnac, among whom Pippa Weitz has been outstanding, created the opening which has given me this opportunity.

My beloved wife Francis, to whom this book is dedicated, has given me the love, the tolerance of my madnesses, the containment, and the sharp creative provocation, which has enabled me to find myself enough to complete this first book.

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