Notes
1. Since my work was as a psychotherapist, and I call the people I worked with ‘patients’, this is the terminology I shall use, but I believe that most of what I am saying applies equally to those who work as psychoanalysts or counsellors, who may prefer to use the word ‘clients’.
2. Fern Hill, by Dylan Thomas, from THE POEMS OF DYLAN THOMAS, copyright 1945 by the Trustees for the Copyright of Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Also in The Collected Poems: A New Centenary Edition, 2014, Orion, London.