Table of Contents

Preface. Part I: Knowing and Telling. The Long Quest to Know. Telling Psychological Tales. The Personal Venture. Part II: Rhetoric, Discourse, and Conversational Inquiry. Psychology as a Discipline of Discourse. Conversational Research and Clinical Practice. Psychologists are Human Too. Part III: Metaphors. Metaphors for Living. The Community of Self. Part IV: Psychotherapy and Story Telling. Stories we Live and Stories we Tell. Psychotherapy, Conversation and Story Telling. Part V: Understanding. A Long Term Quest for Understanding. Searching to Understand – On Being a Psychologist in a Changing World . Enchanting Psychology: The Poetry of Personal Inquiry. References.

About the Author

David Winter is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Programme Director of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. His publications include Personal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice (Routledge, 1992).

Nick Reed is Director of the Centre for Personal Construct Psychology, part of the Department of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Reviews

"In these thoughtful essays, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Miller Mair reveals a distinctive voice with which he broadens the field of psychology to include topics well beyond the traditional confines of the discipline: themes arising from a serious consideration of philosophy, religion, the arts and literature. In retrospect we can see that, with Personal Construct Psychology as his starting point, he went on to initiate what have become vital trends in contemporary psychotherapy – a concern with the conversational, narrative and dialogical aspects of human life – focussing on those conversations between the voices of our internal "selves": A must-read for any student and practitioner of psychotherapy and counselling, from whatever persuasion." – Professor Harry Procter PhD, University of Hertfordshire"Miller Mair inspired a whole generation, of whom I was one . He spoke beautifully, wrote inspiringly and lived a life that reflected both. You can no longer hear him but this book conveys the man, both in theory and practice." - Peter Cummins, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clarendon Practice, Coventry"The editors have done a wonderful job compiling the papers of one of the most brilliant psychologists of the last 50 years. It is must reading for anyone who believes psychology has lost its humanity and desires to see how it may find its way back to honoring the person."- Larry M. Leitner, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA.

"In these thoughtful essays, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Miller Mair reveals a distinctive voice with which he broadens the field of psychology to include topics well beyond the traditional confines of the discipline: themes arising from a serious consideration of philosophy, religion, the arts and literature. In retrospect we can see that, with Personal Construct Psychology as his starting point, he went on to initiate what have become vital trends in contemporary psychotherapy – a concern with the conversational, narrative and dialogical aspects of human life – focussing on those conversations between the voices of our internal "selves": A must-read for any student and practitioner of psychotherapy and counselling, from whatever persuasion." – Professor Harry Procter PhD, University of Hertfordshire"Miller Mair inspired a whole generation, of whom I was one . He spoke beautifully, wrote inspiringly and lived a life that reflected both. You can no longer hear him but this book conveys the man, both in theory and practice." - Peter Cummins, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clarendon Practice, Coventry"The editors have done a wonderful job compiling the papers of one of the most brilliant psychologists of the last 50 years. It is must reading for anyone who believes psychology has lost its humanity and desires to see how it may find its way back to honoring the person."- Larry M. Leitner, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA.