The shaping of psychotherapeutic practice by the dualisms of individual/society, private/public and deconstruction/affirmation: a Namibian case
✍ Scribed by Gudrun Kober
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 103 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1063-3995
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✦ Synopsis
Psychologists are frequently confronted with difficulties which would seem to require a shift in focus from the private, the individual and possibly even the psychological, or, at least, require a widening of focus beyond these spheres. In this paper one such difficulty, namely violence, serves as a starting point to raise a number of issues pertaining to psychotherapeutic practice in a particular context, namely Namibia. These issues are of course not restricted to this particular context. More specifically, it is argued that it may be useful in approaching such topics to explore and possibly to challenge a number of dualisms which would appear to have shaped psychology, namely that of individual/society, private/public and deconstruction/affirmation.