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On sharing one's truth in psychotherapy: Four poems
Author(s) -
Rickey Cindy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.22898
Subject(s) - poetry , countertransference , feeling , psychology , psychotherapist , psychoanalysis , transference , social psychology , psychoanalytic theory , literature , art
Four poems selected from the author's A Year in the Life of an Unemployed Poet , reflect various aspects of the therapeutic experience, in particular what is (and is not) revealed by the client as well as the therapist. Sometimes, it is only poetry that can best convey the deepest (and many times darkest) feelings that arise through the transference and countertransference elicited in therapy, especially a therapy that has lasted over a lifetime.