Learning from Their Finest Hours: A Narrative Analysis of Core Themes

Abstract

So here we are, at the tail end of a magnificent journey through a vast array of techniques, challenges, trials, and tribulations, as experienced by over two dozen eminent therapists during their finest hours of therapy. From the out-set, most of those involved in this project had great difficulty choosing one case that stood out for them over many years of work, yet they could readily identify numerous examples of their worst! For example, Peggy Papp began her story by realting how her finest hour directly followed her worst. Laura Brown told us how she thought that working with Alice could have been her worst lapse of judgement, until later when she realised that her mistake was critical to the successful outcome.