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OverviewFor 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 an overview of discursive perspectives in therapy, along with an account of their conceptual underpinnings. The book starts by setting out the case for a discursive and relational approach to therapy by justaposing it to the tradition that that leads to the diagnostic approach of the DSM-V and medical psychiatry. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andy Lock (School of Psychology, Massey University, New Zealand) , Tom Strong (Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, Canada)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.30cm Weight: 0.530kg ISBN: 9780199592753ISBN 10: 0199592756 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 05 April 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: 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 Harre 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: Maori 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 possibilitiesReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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