The environment: its role in psychosocial functioning and psychotherapy

✍ Scribed by Carolyn Saari

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Challenging Freud's assumption that an individual first develops intrapsychically and is only later confronted with the demands of external reality, Carolyn Saari posits that human beings initially construct a picture of their immediate environment and then construct their identities within that environment. The Environment is an argument in three parts. Part 1 discusses psychoanalytic and developmental theory, showing that while such theory has assumed the existence of an environment, it has taken for granted and therefore left unexamined its role in human development. Michel Foucault's theory of social control provides the framework for Part 2, which examines psychotherapy's capacity either to liberate or to repress the client. Part 3 relates the practical benefits and broader implications of an inclusion of environmental considerations in the practice of psychotherapy.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
PART 1 / THEORY......Page 26
ONE: The Environment in Emotional Experience......Page 28
TWO: The Development of Meaning......Page 40
THREE: Culture and Social Control......Page 54
PART 2 / DOMINATION OR LIBERATION?......Page 68
FOUR: Inner Life and the Possibility of Freedom......Page 70
FIVE: Person and Environment Interactions......Page 86
SIX: Culture, Sexuality, and Impingement......Page 103
PART 3 / IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE......Page 118
SEVEN: Concordance: The Therapeutic Culture......Page 120
EIGHT: The Importance of Relationships......Page 136
NINE: Symbolization: Connections Between Internal and External Worlds......Page 152
Conclusion......Page 167
References......Page 176
D......Page 190
K......Page 191
P......Page 192
W......Page 193
Z......Page 194
O......Page 196
V......Page 197