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Olena’s Battle for Utopia

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This is the story of a long term relationship, one of the longest I have known both personally and professionally. It is full of twists and turns and roundabouts. Some readers will read with raised eyebrows and unspoken ‘tuts’. Others may see how the development of the relationship over time has been healing for both of us in a number of directions. She has given me so much as a therapist and fellow traveller. I hope that will become clear. I want to talk about mutual influence, the wounded healer and tremendous respect for this journey: what it has taught me, how it has influenced my practice and how it has changed me as a person.

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    Having completed systemic psychotherapy training I then looked around for another training which included an understanding of individual development and was also ‘systemic friendly’. Psychodrama fit this bill and I qualified in 2003.

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    Chip Chimera

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  1. Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway

    Arlene Vetere

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    Jim Sheehan

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Chimera, C. (2020). Olena’s Battle for Utopia. In: Vetere, A., Sheehan, J. (eds) Long Term Systemic Therapy . Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44511-9_3

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