What Will You Do With My Story?

This book is a response to a question put to the author years ago when she was a trainee psychotherapist. Asked by a young woman who had been describing her traumatic experience of sexual abuse, her question to me was: 'what will you do with my story?' ' What Will You Do With My Story?, as its title suggests, is that unusual thing, a book that is at once useful and illuminating for both therapists and the people who seek their help. Psychoanalysis is not a cure by love, a talking cure or, indeed, a listening cure; it is a cure by collaboration. As Elizabeth Meakins intimates, the patient is not cured through collaboration, the patient is cured when they can collaborate. What Meakins reveals in her fascinating book is the variety, the subtlety, and the sheer pleasure of collaboration; and of the versions of psychoanalysis that make it possible.' - Adam Phillips.