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A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

A weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

Words and Music: In Therapy

In Therapy

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Buffy Davis and Simon Tcherniak explore the therapeutic relationship in poetry and prose.

Buffy Davis and Simon Tcherniak explore the therapeutic relationship, with poetry and prose from Emily Dickinson, Caroline Bird, Peter Shaffer and Thomas Mann.

Over the last decade, we have turned in increasing numbers to talking therapies in order to try and make sense of ourselves, our mental health and our world. Featuring the words of some of the psychotherapeutic profession’s most significant figures (Freud and Jung) as well as poetic reflections on the healing process from a host of young British poets, this edition of Words and Music explores how writers from a variety of ages have examined stories of self and suffering. Music by Charles Mingus and Anton von Webern is treated to psychoanalytic reading, while John Dowland’s call, “lend your ears to my sorrow”, suggests that the desire to be heard and understood is not so new a feeling. Participating in our radio therapy sessions are readers Buffy Davis and Simon Tcherniak.

Readings:
Caroline Bird - A Surreal Joke
Joe Dunthorne - I Decided To Stop Therapy
Anna Freud - Problems of Technique in Adult Analysis
Robert Pinsky - Essay on Psychiatrists
Batsheva Dori-Carlier - Couples Therapy (translated by Lisa Katz)
Gael Turnbull - It Was As If
John Milton - Samson Agonistes
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain (translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter)
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
C.G. Jung - Modern Man In Search Of A Soul
Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Peter Shaffer - Equus
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
Edmund Pollock - Edmund Pollock - Liner notes to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus
Hans & Rosaleen Moldenhauer - Anton Von Webern, a Chronicle of His Life and Work
Emily Berry - Picnic
Nadia Lines - Talking to my Therapist about Climate Anxiety
Theresa Lola - Two Photographs
Emily Dickinson - After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372)

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