Therapy Futures
Obstacles and Opportunities
Published on 1. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
325 pages
978-1-906254-53-7 (ISBN)
Description
How might therapy reach out and be refreshed? As the dust settles on a non-professionalised therapy landscape, Therapy Futures suggest that therapists of all denominations wave goodbye to state regulation and move towards forms of psycho-practice based on inquiry, equipotency and love.
Reviews / Votes
Human distress and unhappiness isn't caused merely by hapless mums and dads,biographical misfortunes, unconscious spells and irrational beliefs but by the toxic social milieu we all create and sustain every day. Much of our distress stems from a learned collective helplessness, from a weary deference to the Goliath, the emperor, who knows best and cannot be defeated. Denis Postle's book shouts at the emperor's new clothes, a battle cry that will hopefully stir much deeper thought on this subject and that has helped to effect a stop to the proposed, wholly ill-fitting straitjacket of statutory regulation. COLIN FELTHAM, Emeritus Professor of Critical Counselling Studies, Sheffield Hallam University. Whether ruthlessly exposing fault-lines and incongruences,relentlessly pursuing therapy's dubious regimes of professional truth or offering a 'psyCommons' vision of how 'psy' work in all its rich diversity could be different and better, Denis Postle's inexhaustible commitment to the task of holding over-professionalised therapy to account is justifiably legendary. If therapy didn't have Postle, it would urgently need to invent its own Ivan Illich, in order to keep in check the ever-present seduction towards over-blown self-importance to which all 'professions' are subject, yet which in our work would be the death-knell of genuine humanistic praxis. Read it - and, very possibly, be changed. RICHARD HOUSE, PhD., CPsychol, Research Centre for Therapeutic Education,University of Roehampton; author of Therapy Beyond Modernity (2003)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-906254-53-7 (9781906254537)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Denis Postle is an artist, writer and musician who has had a counselling, coaching, supervision and psychotherapy practice in West London for over 17 years. He has co-run a variety of personal and professional development workshops and trainings focused around cooperative enquiry and facilitation. His approach to psychopractice seeks to help clients integrate politics, psychology and spirituality.
Content
CONTENTS Foreword - Colin Feltham Introduction Part I - Refreshment and Renewal 1. The psyCommons: Ordinary Wisdom - Shared Power 2. Honouring the psyCommons: Peer to peer networks and postprofessional psycho-practice 3. The Psychosocial Field 4. New Words for New Times: Moving to post-professional practice 5. Civic Accountability for Psychological Work: The Independent Practitioners Network: A peer-to-peer network approach 6. Spirituality, Psychology and Politics 7. The List: A Practitioner Full Disclosure List: Transcript 8. Holding the Big Picture - Love Matters: Further reflections on the state regulation of the psychological therapies: Transcript 9. Validity in the Psychological Therapies - Why love provides a better benchmark than science: transcript 10. Regulation: The Why and How of Resistance to Regulation of the Psychological Therapies 11. Protecting the Client Experience: A Catastrophe Theory map of civic accountability in the psychological therapies 12. Viable Forms of Civic Accountability for the Psychological Therapies: Open letter to the Professional Standards Authority 13. Kite Flyers Convention Meets: BACP Reference Group Part I Endnote Part II - Case study: A Narrow Escape 14. Speaking The Unspeakable - Two eIpnosis editorials 15. Regulation Rumourtoids - Facing up to state regulation 16. From 'Yes, But', to 'No, Unless'? Or Principled Non-compliance? 17. Speaking to Power: Hidden transcripts, confrontation, and voice 18. The Dogs That Didn't Bark: A report on the Psychological Therapies Reference Group meeting September 18, 2007 19. The Hamburgerization of Personal Development - Be very careful what you wish for: A report on the Psychological Therapies Reference Group Meeting September 18, 2007 20. One Down, Three to Go? The British Psychological Society signs up to state regulation 21. eIpnosis Special - The Health Professions Council - 1: eIpnosis visits the Health Professions Council 22. eIpnosis Special - The Health Professions Council - 2: Creeds and commandments of a technocratic Religion 23. eIpnosis Special - The Health Professions Council - 3 An HPC complainant makes contact 24. Attempts to Freeze-Dry Love Continue 25. Is the State Regulation Train Leaving the Station? Or is the Station Leaving the Train? A Psychological Therapies Reference Group meeting June 10,2008 26. eIpnosis Meets with Marc Seale, CEO of the Health Professions Council 27. The UKCP and Tick-Box Regulation - An arranged marriage? UKCP Conference report 28. Administering the Kiss of Death - A Vichy Moment: Inaugural Meeting of the Health Professions Council Professional Liaison Group 29. War of the Worlds 1: The State v. Mr Gale - the first three days 221 30 Seven Lords a'Leaping - State regulation of psychologists: Lords seal terms of armistice 31. War of the Worlds 2: Derek Hirsh Gale - HPC Arts Therapist Registrant: AS01092 32. Vorauseilender Gehorsam (eager anticipatory obedience) THERAPY FUTURES: OBSTACLES 8 AND OPPORTUNITIES 33. Scorpion Rising - HPC Draft Standards of Proficiency for psychotherapy and counselling July 2009: Submission to HPC Consultation 34. A Tick-Box Doxology? HPC Draft Standards of Proficiency for psychotherapy and counselling: Submission to HPC Consultation 35. Regulating the Psychological Therapies - ENDGAME? Submission to HPC Consultation 36. Where the Story Ends - Statutory rogue-ulation: a convention of counselling and psychotherapy stakeholders in Westminster Hall 37. Game, set ... and Match? The realities and inequities of positional power 38. The Final HPC Professional Liaison Group Meeting February 2, 2011 39. Enantiodromia - State regulation of the psychological therapies is dead in the water Part II Case Study - Endnote Postscript Index