::REVIEWS::

"Love and Knowledge offers not only a philosophic definition of the therapeutic process in his small, accessible gem of a book, but also includes a selection of his own poetry, a 'life mirror' for his descriptions and explorations.

Donnelly delves into the implications, styles, meanings, and risks of therapy, leading the reader along a path from the initial definition of various therapeutic styles, though an exploration of the mysterious and often risk-laden process. With his guidance, readers arrive at a conclusion where they clearly understand the choice implied in therapy: whether or not to act upon the knowledge it generates.

The [poetry] collection demonstrates further his own powerful insights, as well as an almost-surgical precision with language and imagery. [It] conveys a well-tuned ability to render simple, everyday activities, tragedies, and celebrations into art-a creative complement to his earlier philosophic explorations.

In Love and Knowledge, [Donnelly] offers therapists, philosophers, and lovers of well-crafted prose and poetry a thoughtful, evocative addition to a body of literature that is all-too-often lacking in artistic expression."

--HANNA FISKE, Social Work Today

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::PRAISE FOR LOVE AND KNOWLEDGE::

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"I love the idea of a book one can be comfortable in - prose and verse, but one as good - and as moving as yours is hard to find. Do another! I was much moved by Love and Knowledge! -The presentation on psychotherapy is much better than a 'theory'. I have really enjoyed the poems. I love 'Photos' so much."

--JOHN BAYLEY, Oxford poet, literary critic and author of Elegy for Iris.

"In a strange way that I cannot articulate, the two parts of the book - the prose reflection on psychotherapy and the poetry - go together. Both show forth a luminous spirit which I am very glad to have met - in Martin Buber's use of the term 'meeting'."

--MAURICE S. FRIEDMAN, foremost authority on Martin Buber and author of The Healing Dialogue in Psychotherapy and The Affirming Flame: a poetics of meaning.

"I enjoyed the simplicity and grace of the poems. I can only imagine Winnicott would have enjoyed your struggle to make a creative gesture."

--DODI GOLDMAN, Ph.D., author of In Search of the Real: the origins and originality of D.W.Winnicott.

"The book is very interesting, the culmination it seems of many years of thought and practice. I thought, here and there, while reading that you must be a very good therapist."

--FK, teacher, poet and writer, Chicago, Illinois.

"I really achieved a great deal if insight from the book…I've often wondered…why am I in therapy? What is therapy's role… What should I expect from it? I really think you have given me a framework from which to view the experience. Your poems called out to the same life questions and searches, using emotion and the mystical forces of nature for expression, rather than study and intellect which formed the basis for the first part of the book."

--AG, consultant in public relations, Springfield, New Jersey.

"I found the book really laid out the dimensions of psychotherapy. I only wish I had such a book before my experience in psychotherapy. I found the poems beautiful and moving."

--MW, quality improvement manager, New York, New York.

"Once I allowed the conversation with your book to distill through me, I found the core of your personal and professional observations of the human soul so precise, pertinent, striking, true, just and above all so full of compassion. I was completely taken by the poems. I was in the wind with you and the vectors of nature, soul and love."

--JG, business man, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

"The presentation on psychotherapy was incredibly relevant to the issues I have struggled with in therapy in the past. I only wish that experience had been presented with the clarity and compassion I found in the book."

--JC, actor, New York, New York

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