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""Cover ""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction: Transcultural Adoption and Adoptive Being""; ""1 Secrets: Mike Leigh, Andrea Levy, Mei-Ling Hopgood""; ""2 Histories: E. R. Braithwaite, Toni Morrison, Sebastian Barry""; ""3 Traces: Hannah Pool, Buchi Emecheta, Catherine McKinley""; ""4 Bearings: Barbara Kingsolver, Caryl Phillips, Jackie Kay""; ""Coda: Victoria Station, 1969/2015""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""

Offers an introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and therapy. This book includes information on topics such as: Transactional analysis; The use of natural environment in counselling; The contribution of arts-based approaches; and, Integrating theory into practice

Between 1916 and 1947 power structures in present-day Gujarat were determined by three political factors: the princes of these states of Western India, the nationalist politicians, and the British paramount power. This book pictures the patterns of interaction between the three agents. The author first defines the interests of the three parties. In several case studies it becomes clear how their relationship was shaped by the typical pursuit of sovereignty by the rulers, power by the politicians, and control by the British. Essential topics such as the princes' right to collect duty on imported goods, the debate over the tiny states in the Gujarat, the British policy towards youthful princes, and the honours system are carefully explored. This thorough study offers the opportunity to gain a clear understanding of the mechanics of political interaction in princely India . This is the first major scholarly contribution to an until now largely ignored field of interest

This essay considers Andrea Levy's prolonged preoccupation with matters of family, kinship, and adoption as central to her literary articulation of race, empire, and slavery. It explores how Levy presents as a distinctly bodily affair the colonial legacies that have entangled Britain and Jamaica and impacted upon kinship and family-making, as part of her firm attempt transgressively to expose the centrality of colonialism and slavery to the constitution of both Britain and Britons. Yet in pursuing this vital and politically urgent task, Levy risks upholding the synchronisation of corporis and cultura – the body and its historical cultivation – essential to colonial modernity's "blood cultures" that believe in the sanguinary transfusion of historical and cultural particulars. This risk can be sighted particularly in Levy's representation of transracial adoption and her appropriation of the rhetoric of "illegitimate" kinship. With particular reference to The Long Song (2010), the essay considers how Levy's highly valuable attention to the history of forced adoptions at the heart of slavery's brutality is problematised by its figurative requisitioning for wider well-intentioned critical purposes. Ultimately, it is claimed, Levy's laudable literary mission does not always put under sustained pressure the biocentric norms of colonial modernity's sanguinary imagination.

The growing emergence of an appreciation of the significance of narrative, within philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities, has had a significant impact on theory and practice within the field of counseling and psychotherapy. The influence of narrative thinking has been felt in two main ways. First, concepts of narrative have been assimilated into established forms of practice. For example, within psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy, it is now accepted that attention to narrative structures within the discourse of therapy can be used to generate a fuller understanding of the operation of well-known phenomena such as transference. The primary intention of this area of work has been to utilise narrative concepts to permit a deeper understanding of existing ideas about therapeutic processes and procedures. Second, a quite separate set of developments has seen the construction of an approach to therapy which begins from an acknowledgement of the central role of narrative and storytelling in lives and relationships. This alternative approach, generally described as "narrative therapy", can be characterised as the formation of a postpsychological approach to therapy, which focuses on issues surrounding the performance of narratives within relationships, community and culture, rather than on inner psychological processes within individuals. It is argued that postpsychological narrative therapies have the potential to address key contemporary personal and social dilemmas in ways that are not possible within individualist models of therapy.