The Therapist's Voice: Discussion of "Expressivity and Transformation through Language in Work with Serious Disorder"

Director points out that language has been somewhat sidelined by the modern emphasis on the importance of procedural non-verbal encounters. She recounts some clearly life-saving words she uttered to a very despairing patient. The review cites several literary critics commenting on the arousing, even exciting, effect of the inner rhythms contained in great poetry: the reviewer suggests that a related effect on the therapist's voice may have added power and much-needed strength to the words themselves in this clinical situation.