Beyond the Therapeutic State

ISBN-13: 9780367436629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 142 str.

del Loewenthal; Ottar Ness; Billy Hardy

Opis

The therapeutic state is a pervasive set of practices and ideologies which have been ever present in the twentieth century. This book of international contributors is about bringing into question many of these reified, dogmatic ideologies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Beyond the Therapeutic State
Chapter One: The triumph of American psychiatry: How it created the modern therapeutic state
Chapter Two: Children’s mental health: Time to stop using psychiatric diagnosis
Chapter Three: Psychiatric diagnosis, ‘thought styles’ and ex post facto fact fallacies
Chapter Four: Radical Presence: Alternatives to the therapeutic state
Chapter Five: The extended therapy room
Chapter Six: From victimhood to sisterhood – A practice-based reflexive inquiry into narrative informed work with women who have experienced sexual abuse
Chapter Seven: Psychotherapy and its alternatives: Commentary on a critique
Chapter Eight: Dark Clouds
Chapter Nine:  Altermodernity and the unfortunate need to train critical psychotherapists and counsellors