Therapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing: Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry

Contents

• Part 1: Openings
• Chapter 1. An Introduction
• Chapter 2. Something Might Happen
• Chapter 3. Always More
• Interval. Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry (1): Take it to Heart
• Part 2: Refrains
• Chapter 4. What Has Stand-Up Ever Done for Writing as Inquiry? The Refrain, Surprise, Pete and his Lemons
• Chapter 5. The Refrains of Therapy and the Everyday
• Chapter 6. Three Shits: A Connection of Some Kind
• Chapter 7. Counselling on a Scale of 1 To 5
• Chapter 8. Out Here a Man Settles his Own Problems: Learning from John Wayne
• Interval. Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry (2): The Problem and Promise of the Personal
• Part 3: Reframings
• Chapter 9. Once Upon a Time a Story Hit Back
• Chapter 10. Shadow Bands: Thinking Therapy Diffractively
• Chapter 11. W/b/rought to Life
• Interval. Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry (3): The Poetics of the Hyphen
• Part 4: Reframings (Continued): Shame
• Chapter 12. Two Stories of Shame: Calling Upon The Cailleach
• Chapter 13. Meditation on a Green Light Bulb
• Chapter 14. A Third Story of Shame: Hannah Gadsby
• Epilogue