Kilty, H. L. & Dewar, B. (2008). Book Review: Relationality: From attachment to intersubjectivity by S. Mitchell (2000). PrOSspect, 15(1), 8.

Mitchell’s book provides an important read for advanced students and practitioners of psychotherapy. He maps the theoretical history of psychoanalytic work from its origins in individualistic, intrapsychic processes to its contemporary focus on relationality, mutuality, attachment and intersubjectivity. He explores the issues and concerns that emerge from these approaches.

LeBrun L. (2007). Fully alive: Awakening Health, Humor, Compassion and Truth. Ottawa: Wel-Systems Institute.

Louise Lebrun continues to write in a growth inspiring way in this extension of her life's work as an author, speaker, coach and creator of WEL-Systems. She draws from scientific and intuitive wisdom to illuminate the power of the individual to reach their full life potential to build solutions at home, at work and in the world.

Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women's Genius (2006) Created and edited by Louise LeBrun, "with 17 Amazing Women" as contributing co-writers including Karina Evangelista, Dorothy Spence, Eva Marsh, Harjit Shokar, Susan Griffin, Koreen Kimakowich, Anita Allen, Theresa McKeown, Carole Maclnnis, Dominique Dennery, Gwen McCauley, Jackie Zirpdji, Patricia Donihee, Celine Levasseur Burlock, Susan Bremner, and Lorna LeBrun.

Published by The WEL-Systems Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Reviewed by Heather Lee Kilty and Barbara Dewar

Louise LeBrun, author and founder of The WEL-Systems Institute invited seventeen women participants and facilitators of the WEL-Systems growth experience to contribute narratives about their personal journeys and transformations to become more authentically themselves. "Each has had to come face-to-face with herself; not just who she wanted to be but who she has already become" (p.2). The introduction aptly warns the reader: "Be well warned: these women are highly contagious!"(p. 4). Each courageous and challenging story invites the reader to awaken to their own potential testimonies and to actively choose their own meaningful life opportunities.

Dewar, B., & Kilty, H. (spring, 2006).
Book Review: Making Sense Together. OSP Newsletter PrOSPect. Vol. 13, No. 2.

Making Sense Together: The Intersubjective Approach to Psychotherapy.
Peter Buirski and Pamela Haglund, 2001
Jason Aronson Inc. $53.50

Reviewed by Barbara Dewar and Heather Lee Kilty

Authors Buirski and Haglund have created a superb introductory text related to intersubjective theory and practice. This valuable contribution to the psychotherapy literature provides an overview of the basic fundamental concepts, ideas and therapeutic applications of intersubjective relational therapy. Experienced and novice practitioners are provided with rich, clinical illustrations that make the intersubjective come alive.