The Politics of Psychotherapy: New Perspectives

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-335-21653-6
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

This unique collection by leading authors explores the links between therapy and the political world, and their contribution to each other. Topics covered include: - Psychotherapy in the political sphere, including the roots of conflict, social trauma, and ecopsychology

- Political dimensions of psychotherapy practice, such as discrimination, power, sexuality, and postcolonial issues
- Psychotherapy, the state and institutions, including the law and ethics, and psychotherapy in healthcare

- Working at the interface, examples of therapy in political action from Croatia, the USA, the UK and Israel/Palestine

How to ‘place’ political issues in therapy is highly controversial – for example, whether political themes should be interpreted psychologically in the consulting room, or respected as valid in their own right: similar issues arise for the role of therapeutic insights in political reality. This book provides a map through these complex and demanding areas for therapists and counsellors in training, as well as for experienced practitioners or other interested readers. Contributors: Lane Arye, Arlene Audergon, Emanuel Berman, Sandra Bloom, Jocelyn Chaplin, Petruska Clarkson, Chess Denman, Dawn Freshwater, Kate Gentile, John Lees, Renos Papadopoulos, Hilary Prentice, Mary-Jayne Rust, Judy Ryde, Andrew Samuels, Nick Totton.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Totton, Nick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction Part 1: Psychotherapy in the political sphere
Politics on the couch? Psychotherapy and society - Some possibilities and some limitations
Societal trauma: Democracy in danger
Conflict, competition and aggression

The breast-milk of the inuit mother: A tale of micro and macrocosm, shadow and light Part 2: Political dimensions of psychotherapy practice
The politics of sexuality, gender and object choice in therapy
Working with difference: The political context of psychotherapy with an intersubjective dialogue

Power in the therapeutic relationship Part 3: Psychotherapy, the state and institutions

Values, ethics and the law: A story with some morals

The institutions of psychotherapy

Politics and psychotherapy in the context of healthcare Part 4: Working at the interface: Psychotherapy in political action

Transforming conflict into community: Post-war reconciliation in Croatia

Israeli psychotherapists and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Bridge Project: Radical psychotherapy for the 21st Century

How to create social activism: Turning the passive to active without killing each other Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Nick Totton originally trained in Reichian therapy in the early 1980s and since then has worked as a psychotherapist and trainer based in Leeds. He has an M.A. in Psychoanalytic Studies from Leeds Metropolitan University, where he used to teach. His other books published by Open University Press include Personality and Character Types (with Michael Jacobs), Body Psychotherapy and New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy.