The Therapeutic Imagination Using literature to deepen psychodynamic understanding and enhance empathy

'The Therapeutic Imagination is a beautiful, innovative book, both in Holme's creative approach to writing and his deep psychological insights. It is highly recommended to psychotherapists of all schools, psychiatric training centers, and all readers who are interested in innovating developments in psychiatry.'- Alma Halbert Bond, PsycCRITIQUES

'Once again, Jeremy Holmes dazzles. Part master class in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and part psychological journey through classics of English literature, this tour de force is a scholarly, integrative and deeply original look at the links between psychotherapy and the imagination. Moving deftly between fiction and the consulting room, Holmes brings alive the literary, artistic and creative processes that make for truly helpful and transforming psychotherapy. A wonderful read.' - Arietta Slade, Clinical Professor, Yale Child Study Center, USA

'Jeremy Holmes's The Therapeutic Imagination succeeds in rethinking the assumptions of one discipline from the standpoint of another, without compromising the integrity of either one. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the relationship between literature and the life we all live.' - Neil Vickers, Reader in English Literature and the Medical Humanities, King's College London, UK