Therapy with a Voice: A Cognitive Analytic Approach to the Inner Life of Talk and Conversations - Couverture souple

Potter, Steve; Cutler, Lucy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 180388469X ISBN 13 : 9781803884691

Editeur : Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd, 2026

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Therapy with a Map, Steve Potter, in collaboration with clinical psychologist Lucy Cutler, comes a striking new addition to the series.

Whether you are a therapist looking to extend your practice, or simply curious about the conversations that shape your life, Therapy with a Voice offers a fresh way of understanding everyday dialogue. Through vivid case studies, conversational mapping, reflective writing, and practical exercises, this book is accessible yet profound, and rich not only in theory but also in tools for everyday practice whether for professionals or more generally.

Therapy with a Voice explores the ordinary dialogue between the visible and hidden life of conversation. We have never had more ways to communicate. Messages move constantly through phones, social media, email, and now AI. Yet many of us still leave conversations feeling unheard, misunderstood, or strangely alone. The book asks why do some conversations leave us lighter, while others echo in our minds for days? Why do we replay what was said — hearing it again through the sharper, more critical voice inside us? Why do certain patterns of explaining, withdrawing, arguing, or pleasing seem to repeat across our relationships?

Drawing on the relational tradition of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), the authors invite us to look beneath the surface of everyday words and dialogue. We rarely speak with just one voice. Within us is a chorus shaped by our relationships — voices that invite, assert, defend, withdraw, reassure, criticise, or care.

'A thoughtful and practical guide for anyone seeking to deepen relational consciousness in their work.' - Dr. Christel Hessels, clinical psychologist and CAT-practitioner and supervisor, chair of the Dutch Association in Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT-NL)

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Steve Potter is a psychotherapist who is teaches and supervises Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) and its application to reflective practice in the UK and internationally. His central interest is in the co-creative process of relational mapping, and how it allows us to see and say things that otherwise might be too complex to hold in mind. He is co-editor of the International Journal of Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Relational Mental Health.

Lucy Cutler is a CAT and EMDR therapist, a chartered clinical psychologist and a CAT supervisor working in private practice in the Channel Islands. She has a varied background of working in Australia, the NHS and for the States of Jersey. She works in a relational way, to support people in better understanding their relationship with themselves and others, and in finding their voices in therapy.

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Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction

Part One
1: Mapping our voices therapeutically
2: Writing for the voice therapeutically
3: Voice awareness exercises


Part Two
4: The birth of voice
5: From babble to belonging
6: Schooling the voice
7: Voice under reconstruction
8: Voice, intimacy and desire
9: Voice and the emerging self
10: Adults among voices
11: New voices for old narratives
12: Looking for conversational love


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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 180388469X
• ISBN 13: 9781803884691
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Allemagne