There is increasing concern about the growing state influences on the talking therapies. Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice is a response to that concern. It is the first book to assess the use of the word 'critical' as a prefix for psychotherapy, psych
Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice
β Scribed by Del Loewenthal (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 339
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Talking Therapies, Culture, the State and Neoliberalism: Is There a Need for Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling?....Pages 3-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
The Medical Model: What Is It, Where Did It Come from and How Long Has It Got?....Pages 29-40
Towards Critical Psychotherapy and Counselling: What Can We Learn from Critical Psychology (and Political Economy)?....Pages 41-52
The Neurobiological Turn in Therapeutic Treatment: Salvation or Devastation?....Pages 53-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Personal versus Medical Meanings in Breakdown, Treatment and Recovery from βSchizophreniaβ....Pages 77-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Critical Theory and Psychotherapy....Pages 95-107
When Love Is Not All We Want: Queers, Singles and the Therapeutic Cult of Relationality....Pages 108-124
Relating to People as Revolutionaries....Pages 125-137
Work in Contemporary Capitalism....Pages 138-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Therapy (But Were Afraid to Ask): Fragments of a Critical Psychotherapy....Pages 159-174
Critical Priorities for the Psychotherapy and Counselling Community....Pages 175-188
The Deleuzian Project....Pages 189-199
Psychoanalysis and the Event of Resistance....Pages 200-221
Psychology, Psychotherapy β Coming to Our Senses?....Pages 222-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Contesting the Curriculum: Counsellor Education in a Postmodern and Medicalising Era....Pages 241-263
Systemic Means to Subversive Ends: Maintaining the Therapeutic Space as a Unique Encounter....Pages 264-282
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling for Oppressors and Oppressed: Sex, Violence and Ideology in Practice?....Pages 285-302
Back Matter....Pages 303-309
β¦ Subjects
Clinical Psychology; Critical Psychology; Consulting - Supervision - Coaching; Psychoanalysis; Psychotherapy and Counseling; Psychotherapy
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