Deconstructing Psychotherapy by Ian Parker
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.
`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 settingsIt will also be well received by those, like myself, for whom the interest is more in deconstructing than psychotherapy′ -Dialogues
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
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| ISBN 13 | 9780761957133 |
| ISBN 10 | 0761957138 |
| Title | Deconstructing Psychotherapy |
| Author | Ian Parker |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Year published | 1999-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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