Story So Far

Ann Cattanach is a play therapist and dramatherapist in private practice. She has wide experience of teaching and lecturing in drama, dramatherapy and speech communication, and has also worked as a child psychotherapist, family therapist and dramatherapist for Social Services and NHS Trusts. She has written many papers, articles and books, including Play Therapy: Where the Sky Meets the Underworld, Children's Stories in Play Therapy and Process in the Arts Therapies, also published by Jessica Kingsley.

The Story So Far: Play Therapy Narratives consists of a series of fascinating case studies from nine therapists using play therapy techniques. I like the variety of creative techniques used, the illustrations and photographs, and the wide range of issues.

• Introduction. 1. When All the World was Slime, Sally Hanson, North Wales. 2. The Self is a Telling: A Child's Tale of Alien Abduction, David le Vay, Surrey. 3. Jeffrey the Dog: A Search for Shared Meaning, Sue Allanson, NSPCC, Derbyshire. 4. All That Glitters is not Gold: Getting a Family, Ruth Watson, London. 5. In the Wake of the Monster: When Trauma Strikes, Alison Kelly, London. 6. The Wounded Hero, Maureen Scott-Nash, Hertfordshire. 7. Finding the Way Back Home: Children's Stories of Family Attachment, Sheila Hudd., London. 8. The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Tracking a Life, Ann Cattanach, Inverness-shire. 9. The Biography Laboratory: Co-creating in Community, Christine Novy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Index.