Deconstructing Psychotherapy

Ian Parker - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Deconstructing Psychotherapy
May 1999 | 208 pages | Sage UK
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`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.

Contents

Deconstruction and Psychotherapy

Deconstruction and Psychotherapy

PART ONE: SOURCES AND CONTEXTS FOR THE DECONSTRUCTIVE TURN

  • Toward a Non-Regulative Praxis
  • Derrida and the Deconstruction of Power as Context and Topic in Therapy
  • Clementis's Hat
  • Foucault and the Politics of Psychotherapy
  • Between the `No Longer' and the `Not Yet'
  • Postmodernism as a Context for Critical Therapeutic Work
  • Feminism, Politics and Power in Therapeutic Discourse
  • Fragments from the Fifth Province

PART TWO: DECONSTRUCTION IN PRAXIS

  • Narrative, Foucault and Feminism
  • Implications for Therapeutic Practice
  • A Discursive Approach to Therapy with Men
  • Therapy and Faith
  • Inscription, Description and Deciphering Chronic Identities

PART THREE: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC DISCOURSE

  • The Therapist as Client as Expert
  • Externalizing Narrative Therapy
  • Can (and Should) We Know How, Where and When Psychotherapy Takes Place?

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`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.

Contents

Deconstruction and Psychotherapy

Deconstruction and Psychotherapy

PART ONE: SOURCES AND CONTEXTS FOR THE DECONSTRUCTIVE TURN

  • Toward a Non-Regulative Praxis
  • Derrida and the Deconstruction of Power as Context and Topic in Therapy
  • Clementis's Hat
  • Foucault and the Politics of Psychotherapy
  • Between the `No Longer' and the `Not Yet'
  • Postmodernism as a Context for Critical Therapeutic Work
  • Feminism, Politics and Power in Therapeutic Discourse
  • Fragments from the Fifth Province

PART TWO: DECONSTRUCTION IN PRAXIS

  • Narrative, Foucault and Feminism
  • Implications for Therapeutic Practice
  • A Discursive Approach to Therapy with Men
  • Therapy and Faith
  • Inscription, Description and Deciphering Chronic Identities

PART THREE: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC DISCOURSE

  • The Therapist as Client as Expert
  • Externalizing Narrative Therapy
  • Can (and Should) We Know How, Where and When Psychotherapy Takes Place?
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May 1999 | 208 pages | Sage UK

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`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.


Table Of Contents:

  • Deconstruction and Psychotherapy
  • PART ONE: SOURCES AND CONTEXTS FOR THE DECONSTRUCTIVE TURN
  • Toward a Non-Regulative Praxis
  • Derrida and the Deconstruction of Power as Context and Topic in Therapy
  • Clementis's Hat
  • Foucault and the Politics of Psychotherapy
  • Between the `No Longer' and the `Not Yet'
  • Postmodernism as a Context for Critical Therapeutic Work
  • Feminism, Politics and Power in Therapeutic Discourse
  • Fragments from the Fifth Province
  • PART TWO: DECONSTRUCTION IN PRAXIS
  • Narrative, Foucault and Feminism
  • Implications for Therapeutic Practice
  • A Discursive Approach to Therapy with Men
  • Therapy and Faith
  • Inscription, Description and Deciphering Chronic Identities
  • PART THREE: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC DISCOURSE
  • The Therapist as Client as Expert
  • Externalizing Narrative Therapy
  • Can (and Should) We Know How, Where and When Psychotherapy Takes Place?

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`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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