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'A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-wining writer and a psychotherapist.
'The Good Story is an exchange between a great writer with a long-standing interest in human psychology and a distinguished psychotherapist who has long been passionate about literature.
'Arabella Kurtz and J.M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches are language and story. Working alone, the writer is in sole charge of the story he or she tells. The therapist collaborates with the patient on the story of their life. Are they seeking an absolute truth or a fiction that will help the patient to overcome their distress?
'The authors discuss both individual psychology and the psychology of the group: the school classroom, the gang, the settler nation where the brutal deeds of the ancestors several generations back have to be accommodated into the national story. They draw on the work of great writers like Cervantes and Dostoevsky as well as canonical writers on psychoanalysis such as Freud and Melanie Klein. Their discussion provides an illuminating insight into the stories we tell of our lives.' (Publication summary)
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In Some Sense True
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 21 January vol. 38 no. 2 2016; (p. 25-28)
— Review of The Good Story : Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Pschoanalytic Psychotherapy 2015 single work criticism ; J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing : Face to Face with Time 2015 single work criticism -
[Review] The Good Story : Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , no. 42 2016;
— Review of The Good Story : Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Pschoanalytic Psychotherapy 2015 single work criticism -
J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz. The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy (Harvill Secker, 2105)
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 8 no. 1 2015;
— Review of The Good Story : Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Pschoanalytic Psychotherapy 2015 single work criticism -
Trying to Find the Real Truth
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 August 2015; (p. 26-27) The Saturday Age , 15-16 August 2015; (p. 26)
— Review of The Good Story : Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Pschoanalytic Psychotherapy 2015 single work criticism -
Truth or Dare
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 June 2015; (p. 22)
— Review of The Good Story : Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Pschoanalytic Psychotherapy 2015 single work criticism 'JM Coetzee makes a brilliant argument for justice in fiction, writes David Free.'
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Truth or Dare
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 June 2015; (p. 22)
— Review of The Good Story : Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Pschoanalytic Psychotherapy 2015 single work criticism 'JM Coetzee makes a brilliant argument for justice in fiction, writes David Free.' -
Trying to Find the Real Truth
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 August 2015; (p. 26-27) The Saturday Age , 15-16 August 2015; (p. 26)
— Review of The Good Story : Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Pschoanalytic Psychotherapy 2015 single work criticism -
J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz. The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy (Harvill Secker, 2105)
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 8 no. 1 2015;
— Review of The Good Story : Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Pschoanalytic Psychotherapy 2015 single work criticism -
In Some Sense True
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 21 January vol. 38 no. 2 2016; (p. 25-28)
— Review of The Good Story : Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Pschoanalytic Psychotherapy 2015 single work criticism ; J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing : Face to Face with Time 2015 single work criticism -
[Review] The Good Story : Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , no. 42 2016;
— Review of The Good Story : Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Pschoanalytic Psychotherapy 2015 single work criticism