Publications

Psychotherapy: The Past in the Present: Therapy Enactments and the Return of Trauma.

“ ...the enactment process becomes alive during therapy because a core aspect of the trauma awakens which belongs to both client and psychotherapist and is unconsciously being negotiated by both into awareness with the fundamental hope that a mutual resolution will be reached...but the combination of both traumatic histories may actually constellate and collide together, exposing more layers of difficulty.

The mutual, open exploration of the effect of an enactment process potentially leads to a shift towards a genuinely felt relationship in the present which both can carry forward into other relationships.”

Valerie CunninghamCo Editor

The Past in the Present:
Therapy Enactments and the Return of Trauma.

(Co-editor with David Mann,) published by Routledge 2008.

This book brings together for the first time contemporary ideas from both the psychoanalytic and humanistic therapy traditions on how they work with enactments in therapy especially if the client has a history of trauma.

Contributors

  • Marie Adams
  • Caroline Case
  • William F. Cornell
  • Valerie Cunningham
  • Louise Embleton Tudor
  • Celia Harding
  • Raymond Kenward
  • Alison Knight-Evans
  • David Mann
  • Patricia Marsden
  • Janet McDermott
  • Keith Tudor
  • Penny Webster
  • Christina Wieland