Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism: Practice Challenges Theory

Author:   Carmel Flaskas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415183000


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   08 August 2002
Format:   Paperback
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Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism: Practice Challenges Theory


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Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism examines postmodernism and its expression in family therapy, raising questions about realities and realness, the subjective process of truth, and the experience of self. It identifies difficulties in any sole reliance on narrative and social constructionist ideas, and advocates the value of family therapy practice of selected psychoanalytic ideas, in particular: attachment and the unconscious transference, countertransference, projective identification and understandings of time psychoanalytic ideas about thinking and containment in considering the therapeutic relationship in family therapy. This book offers a sustained critical discussion of contemporary family therapy knowledge, and develops a place for psychoanalytic ideas in systemic thinking and practice. It will be of great interest to psychotherapists, family therapists and other mental health professionals.

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Author:   Carmel Flaskas
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9780415183000


ISBN 10:   0415183006
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   08 August 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Connections in Postmodern Times - An Introduction. The Shape of Postmodernism. Social Constructionist Ideas and the Narrative Metaphor. The Question of Reality and Realness. Truth as a Process. The Narrative Self and the Limits of Language. Postmodernist Limits and Intersecting Psychoanalytic Ideas. Attachment and the Unconscious. Transference, Projective Identification and Time. Further Thoughts on the Therapeutic Relationship. Concluding Comments.

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'This is a very valuable contribution to the literature on family therapy. It is timely, clearly and engagingly written, and it advances family therapy by clarifying concepts which have been very problematic, and offering new ways forward.' - Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck College, London


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