Deconstructing Psychotherapy
1st Edition
Published on 30. March 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-7619-5713-3 (ISBN)
Description
`I enjoyed this book, and think that it should find a grateful and attentive readership in the practical field as well as being a central text in academic settings. It will also be well received by those, like myself, for whom the interest is more in deconstructing than psychotherapy' - Dialogues
This book takes the discursive and postmodern turn in psychotherapy a significant step forward and will be of interest to all those working in mental health who are concerned with challenges to oppression and processes of emancipation. It achieves this by: reflecting on the role of psychotherapy in contemporary culture; developing critiques of language in psychotherapy that unravel its claims to personal truth; and the reworking of a place in the transformative therapeutic practice.
Deconstruction is brought to bear on the key conceptual and pragmatic issues that therapists and clinical psychologists face, and the project of therapy is opened up to critical attention and reconstruction. The book provides clear reviews of different viewpoints and will help readers to understand the complex terrain of debates.
This book takes the discursive and postmodern turn in psychotherapy a significant step forward and will be of interest to all those working in mental health who are concerned with challenges to oppression and processes of emancipation. It achieves this by: reflecting on the role of psychotherapy in contemporary culture; developing critiques of language in psychotherapy that unravel its claims to personal truth; and the reworking of a place in the transformative therapeutic practice.
Deconstruction is brought to bear on the key conceptual and pragmatic issues that therapists and clinical psychologists face, and the project of therapy is opened up to critical attention and reconstruction. The book provides clear reviews of different viewpoints and will help readers to understand the complex terrain of debates.
Reviews / Votes
`The book is a welcome addition to literature in the field, however, and signals the need for more vigorous engagement and debate, informed by postmodern discourse, in South Africa' - PINS`I enjoyed this book, and think that it should find a grateful and attentive readership in the practical field as well as being a central text in academic settings. It will also be well received by those, like myself, for whom the interest is more in deconstructing than psychotherapy' -Dialogues
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Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-5713-3 (9780761957133)
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Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Bolton Institute. He is author of Psychoanalytic Culture (SAGE, 1997) and co-author of Deconstructing Psychopathology (SAGE, 1995).
CONTRIBUTORS
Steven D Brown Keele University
Vivien Burr University of Huddersfield
Andrew Collier University of Southampton
Bronwyn Davies James Cook University
Don Foster University of Cape Town
Kenneth J Gergen Swarthmore College
Rom Harre Oxford University
Maritza Montero Universidad Central de Venezuela
Jonathan Potter Loughborough University
Joan Pujol University of Huddersfield
Carla Willig Middlesex University
CONTRIBUTORS
Steven D Brown Keele University
Vivien Burr University of Huddersfield
Andrew Collier University of Southampton
Bronwyn Davies James Cook University
Don Foster University of Cape Town
Kenneth J Gergen Swarthmore College
Rom Harre Oxford University
Maritza Montero Universidad Central de Venezuela
Jonathan Potter Loughborough University
Joan Pujol University of Huddersfield
Carla Willig Middlesex University
Content
Deconstruction and Psychotherapy - Ian Parker
PART ONE: SOURCES AND CONTEXTS FOR THE DECONSTRUCTIVE TURN
Toward a Non-Regulative Praxis - John Kaye
Derrida and the Deconstruction of Power as Context and Topic in Therapy - Glenn Larner
Clementis's Hat - Vincent Fish
Foucault and the Politics of Psychotherapy
Between the `No Longer' and the `Not Yet' - Roger Lowe
Postmodernism as a Context for Critical Therapeutic Work
Feminism, Politics and Power in Therapeutic Discourse - Nollaig O'Reilly Byrne and Imelda Colgan McCarthy
Fragments from the Fifth Province
PART TWO: DECONSTRUCTION IN PRAXIS
Narrative, Foucault and Feminism - Vanessa Swan
Implications for Therapeutic Practice
A Discursive Approach to Therapy with Men - Ian Law
Therapy and Faith - Wendy Drewery with Wally McKenzie
Inscription, Description and Deciphering Chronic Identities - Stephen Madigan
PART THREE: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC DISCOURSE
The Therapist as Client as Expert - John Morss and Maria Nichterlein
Externalizing Narrative Therapy
Can (and Should) We Know How, Where and When Psychotherapy Takes Place? - Eero Riikonen and Sara Vataja
PART ONE: SOURCES AND CONTEXTS FOR THE DECONSTRUCTIVE TURN
Toward a Non-Regulative Praxis - John Kaye
Derrida and the Deconstruction of Power as Context and Topic in Therapy - Glenn Larner
Clementis's Hat - Vincent Fish
Foucault and the Politics of Psychotherapy
Between the `No Longer' and the `Not Yet' - Roger Lowe
Postmodernism as a Context for Critical Therapeutic Work
Feminism, Politics and Power in Therapeutic Discourse - Nollaig O'Reilly Byrne and Imelda Colgan McCarthy
Fragments from the Fifth Province
PART TWO: DECONSTRUCTION IN PRAXIS
Narrative, Foucault and Feminism - Vanessa Swan
Implications for Therapeutic Practice
A Discursive Approach to Therapy with Men - Ian Law
Therapy and Faith - Wendy Drewery with Wally McKenzie
Inscription, Description and Deciphering Chronic Identities - Stephen Madigan
PART THREE: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC DISCOURSE
The Therapist as Client as Expert - John Morss and Maria Nichterlein
Externalizing Narrative Therapy
Can (and Should) We Know How, Where and When Psychotherapy Takes Place? - Eero Riikonen and Sara Vataja