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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Small mark on page edge. No notes or highlighting. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> I have struggled with writing this chapter more than any of the others. There have been many versions most of them in different styles of acad emic prose/social science report writing. My tussles have been with the preces and cons of starting with an ideas chapter. It seems important to set the scene’ by embedding my work within its histories cultures and contexts. The practice of research is akin to a series of conversations and it seems useful to locate this entry in relation to the ongoing dialogue. Nonetheless my experience of both therapy and research in process’ is not that ideas and histories inform practices or vice versa but rather that they sustain each other in a constant fluid exchange as the work progresses. In many research texts where there is an ‘ideas’ section at the beginning readers are invited to skip the first part and come back to it later the implication being (or so it seems to me) that ideas are abstract and harder to absorb than the stories of ‘what happened next’ and also perhaps that if the text reflects some sense of chronological time then the ideas came first. So there’s the conundrum. How might I write a begin- ning chapter that destabilises certainties and clearly positions my work without preserving it in aspic? (LL)