Beyond the Smile

This is an innovative and thought-provoking study of the ways in which photographs can enhance psychotherapy sessions, using individual case studies to show to relationship between the photograph and the self.

Linda Berman is a psychotherapist and marital therapist in private practice.

1 Photographs in everyday life, 2 'I am here, I am there': paradoxes, contradictions and ambiguities within the photograph, 3 Using photographs in therapy: some general principles, 4 A clinical example: Jane, 5 A closer look at the family album: searching for clues to the past, 6 The search continues: exploring images of interaction, 7 Who can benefit? 8 'Can it really be me?' Photographs and the self