John Lees is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Leeds, counselling and psychotherapy practitioner in private practice in London and Sussex, and founder editor of a Routledge journal, Psychodynamic Counselling (now Psychodynamic Practice). He has co-edited four books and published numerous book chapters and professional articles. He designed an MSc in Therapeutic Counselling, was Programme leader of that course for twelve years and co-designed three other therapy-orientated postgraduate courses, at the University of Greenwich. He has spoken at conferences in the United States, Japan, and Australia, has been visiting scholar at colleges or universities in Japan, Australia and India and has designed a course on anthroposophic psychotherapy in Japan.

• Introduction , A practitioner researcher's view of academic life, emancipation, and transformation , Real bodies of knowledge , A transformational dialogue between the Fisherman and the Gentle Warrior , Refiguration in counselling and psychotherapy , And so the whirl owl flies: a Jungian 1 approach to practitioner research , Exploring the meaning of hope and despair in the therapeutic relationship , Ethics and reflexivity in practitioner enquiry: three detectives and other stories , Epiphany , Psychological distress and the emancipation of the psychologically oppressed , Searching for a voice , Multiple voices, multiple truths: creating reality through dialogue

'Vital and transformative perspectives on professional life. Challenging dominant discourses and power hierarchies, this socially aware and politically engaged book heralds new developments in research and practice in professions such as counselling, psychotherapy and nursing.'- Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex

John Lees is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Leeds, counselling and psychotherapy practitioner in private practice in London and Sussex, and founder editor of a Routledge journal, Psychodynamic Counselling (now Psychodynamic Practice). He has co-edited four books and published numerous book chapters and professional articles. He designed an MSc in Therapeutic Counselling, was Programme leader of that course for twelve years and co-designed three other therapy-orientated postgraduate courses, at the University of Greenwich. He has spoken at conferences in the United States, Japan, and Australia, has been visiting scholar at colleges or universities in Japan, Australia and India and has designed a course on anthroposophic psychotherapy in Japan.

• Introduction , A practitioner researcher's view of academic life, emancipation, and transformation , Real bodies of knowledge , A transformational dialogue between the Fisherman and the Gentle Warrior , Refiguration in counselling and psychotherapy , And so the whirl owl flies: a Jungian 1 approach to practitioner research , Exploring the meaning of hope and despair in the therapeutic relationship , Ethics and reflexivity in practitioner enquiry: three detectives and other stories , Epiphany , Psychological distress and the emancipation of the psychologically oppressed , Searching for a voice , Multiple voices, multiple truths: creating reality through dialogue

'Vital and transformative perspectives on professional life. Challenging dominant discourses and power hierarchies, this socially aware and politically engaged book heralds new developments in research and practice in professions such as counselling, psychotherapy and nursing.'- Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex

John Lees is Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Leeds, counselling and psychotherapy practitioner in private practice in London and Sussex, and founder editor of a Routledge journal, Psychodynamic Counselling (now Psychodynamic Practice). He has co-edited four books and published numerous book chapters and professional articles. He designed an MSc in Therapeutic Counselling, was Programme leader of that course for twelve years and co-designed three other therapy-orientated postgraduate courses, at the University of Greenwich. He has spoken at conferences in the United States, Japan, and Australia, has been visiting scholar at colleges or universities in Japan, Australia and India and has designed a course on anthroposophic psychotherapy in Japan.

• Introduction , A practitioner researcher's view of academic life, emancipation, and transformation , Real bodies of knowledge , A transformational dialogue between the Fisherman and the Gentle Warrior , Refiguration in counselling and psychotherapy , And so the whirl owl flies: a Jungian 1 approach to practitioner research , Exploring the meaning of hope and despair in the therapeutic relationship , Ethics and reflexivity in practitioner enquiry: three detectives and other stories , Epiphany , Psychological distress and the emancipation of the psychologically oppressed , Searching for a voice , Multiple voices, multiple truths: creating reality through dialogue

'Vital and transformative perspectives on professional life. Challenging dominant discourses and power hierarchies, this socially aware and politically engaged book heralds new developments in research and practice in professions such as counselling, psychotherapy and nursing.'- Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex