Therapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing

Therapy, Stand Up and the Gesture of Writing weaves together (and each reflects the other) an autoethnographical treatment of stories of therapy and accounts of stand-up. These will be examined through a theoretical framework primarily drawn from Delueze and Guattari, exploring the new materialisms and affect theory.

Part 1: Openings
Chapter 1. An Introduction
Chapter 2. Something Might Happen
Chapter 3. Always More
Interval. Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry (1): Take it to Heart
Part 2: Refrains
Chapter 4. What Has Stand-Up Ever Done for Writing as Inquiry? The Refrain, Surprise, Pete and his Lemons
Chapter 5. The Refrains of Therapy and the Everyday
Chapter 6. Three Shits: A Connection of Some Kind
Chapter 7. Counselling on a Scale of 1 To 5
Chapter 8. Out Here a Man Settles his Own Problems: Learning from John Wayne
Interval. Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry (2): The Problem and Promise of the Personal
Part 3: Reframings
Chapter 9. Once Upon a Time a Story Hit Back
Chapter 10. Shadow Bands: Thinking Therapy Diffractively
Chapter 11. W/b/rought to Life
Interval. Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry (3): The Poetics of the Hyphen
Part 4: Reframings (Continued): Shame
Chapter 12. Two Stories of Shame: Calling Upon The Cailleach
Chapter 13. Meditation on a Green Light Bulb
Chapter 14. A Third Story of Shame: Hannah Gadsby
Epilogue