Discursive perspectives in therapeutic practice - Brossura

Lock, Andy; Strong

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199592756 ISBN 13: 9780199592753

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2012

Riassunto

For an endeavour that is largely based on conversation it may seem obvious to suggest that psychotherapy is discursive. After all, therapists and clients primarily use talk, or forms of discourse, to accomplish therapeutic aims. However, talk or discourse has usually been seen as secondary to the actual business of therapy - a necessary conduit for exhanging information between therapist and client, but seldom more. Psychotherapy primarily developed by mapping particular experiential domains in ways responsive to human intervention. Only recently though has the role that discourse plays been recognized as a focus in itself for analysis and intervention.

Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice presents a overview of discursive perspectives in therapy, along with an account of its philosophical underpinnings. The book starts by historically situating discursive ideas, looking at the work of philosophers such as Wittgenstein, Merleau Ponty and Heidigger. It then presents a thorough review of a range of innovative discursive methods, each presented by an authority in their respective area. The book shows how discursive therapies can help people construct a better sense of their world, and move beyond the constraints caused by the cultural preconceptions, opinions, and values the client has about the world.

The book makes a unique contribution to the philosophy and psychiatry literature in examining both the philosophical bases of discursive therapy, whilst also showing how discursive perspectives can be applied in real therapeutic situations. The book will be of great value and interest to psychotherapists and psychiatrists wishing to understand, explore, and apply these innovative techniques.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Andy Lock is Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology at Massey University in New Zealand. Tom Strong is Associate Professor with the Educational Studies in Counselling Psychology Program in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary in Canada.

Contenuti

• 1: Andy Lock and Tom Strong: Discursive therapy: Why language, and how we use it in therapeutic dialogues, matters
• 2: Lois Shawver: Talking to listen: its pre-history, invention and future in the field of psychotherapy
• 3: Rom Harré and Mirjana Dedai?: Positioning Theory, narratology and pronoun analysis as discursive therapies
• 4: Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen: Therapeutic Communication from a Constructionist Standpoint
• 5: John Shotter: Ontological social constructionism in the context of a social ecology: The importance of our living bodies
• 6: Susanna Chamberlain: Narrative Therapy: Challenges and communities of practice
• 7: Sue Levin and Saliha Bava: Collaborative therapy: Performing reflective and dialogic relationships
• 8: Maureen Duffy: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Listening in the present with an ear toward the future
• 9: Gale Miller and Mark McKergow: From Wittgenstein, complexity, and narrative emergence: Discourse and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
• 10: Lois Holzman and Fred Newman: Activity and performance (and their discourses) in Social Therapeutic Method
• 11: Charles Waldegrave: Developing a 'Just Therapy': Context and the Ascription of Meaning
• 12: Maria Maniapoto: Mãori expressions of healing in Just Therapy
• 13: Ronald J. Chenail, Melissa DeVincentis, Harriet E. Kiviat, and Cynthia Somers: Systematic narrative review of discursive therapies research: Considering the value of circumstantial evidence
• 14: Robbie Busch: Problematising social context in evidence-based therapy evaluation practice/governance
• 15: Maureen Duffy: The body, trauma, and narrative approaches to healing
• 16: John Cromby: Narrative, discourse, psychotherapy - neuroscience?
• 17: Tom Strong: Conversation and its therapeutic possibilities

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199592756
• ISBN 13: 9780199592753
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia