The Sessions

The fifty sonnets of this collection explore talking therapy from the perspective of client and therapist. Drawing on the author's work as a clinical psychologist, as well as his experiences of being in therapy, the poems pay tribute to the healing power of conversation while also interrogating the complications and contradictions of the process: what does it mean when care is boxed into a time-limited consultation? What happens within and between us when the personal, professional and political collide? The Sessions is a compassionate, humane look at how we hide and reveal parts of ourselves; how we change and how we don't. It is a book, ultimately, about connection.