Into the Loop

“Into the Loop is a compelling reflection on the intricacies of subjectivity and relationality in contemporary psychotherapy. Collu delves into the psychologically and interpersonally intense scenes of engagement between systems-based therapists and their clients. With this outstanding and fully realized work, Collu offers an innovative approach to anthropological research and ethnographic writing.” - Robert Desjarlais, author of The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar

“Collu effectively and consistently opens a channel between the ordinary and the metaphysical without at all being pedantic or preachy. By moving fluidly between ethnographic scenes and his own life experience, he invites the reader into a sensory if not existential complicity. Beautifully written and never less than engaging, reading Into the Loop is like being strapped to a dragonfly: ducking and diving, flitting and flickering, charming and provoking.” - William T. S. Mazzarella, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Science, University of Chicago

"[Into the Loop] offers a rich resource for rethinking how we inhabit the training clinic, the supervision room, and the therapy session itself, and invites the systemic community to reconsider . . . how our own gazes, bodies, and screens are always already part of the loops we hope to transform." - Nathan Smith, International Journal of Systemic Therapy

"Collu’s overall approach as a well-placed refusal to fall into the loop of being too prescriptive or preachy. In the end, I’m struck by how Collu manages to balance a rare kind of vulnerability on the page, standing right alongside the reader as we gaze into the collective mirror." - Danielle Douez, Montreal Review of Books