Postmodernist ideas are widely used in family therapy. However, it is argued that these ideas have their limits in meeting the richness and complexity of human experience and therapy practice. Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism examines postmodernism and its expressions in family therapy, raising questions about: * reality and realness * the subjective process of truth * the experience of self. Alongside identifying the difficulties in any sole reliance on narrative and constructionist ideas, this book advocates the value of selected psychoanalytic ideas for family...
Postmodernist ideas are widely used in family therapy. However, it is argued that these ideas have their limits in meeting the richness and complexity...
How do experiences of hope and despair impact upon our capacity to meet life's challenges in narrative and family therapy?
Clients' experiences of hope and despair can be complex, reflecting individual and family histories, current patterns and dynamics, the stresses of everyday life, and the social contexts of families' lives. This book analyses how therapists meet and engage with these dichotomous aspects of human experience.
The editors place the themes of hope and despair at the centre of a series of reflections on practice and theory. Contributors from all over the...
How do experiences of hope and despair impact upon our capacity to meet life's challenges in narrative and family therapy?
Brings the issue of the therapeutic relationship in family systems therapy into focus, by examing the relationships between the client family as a system, and the use of self in therapy.
Brings the issue of the therapeutic relationship in family systems therapy into focus, by examing the relationships between the client family as a sys...
-This book, which comprises contributions from many well known authors, takes an important step in the field of family therapy towards linking many fruitful approaches. Sheila McNamee (2004) recently suggested that we have reached the point when we should be promiscuous rather than remaining faithful to one pure approach. This allows us to enrich our skills rather than confining them. Nevertheless, we still need a shared focus. What better place to start than by exploring the space between the therapist and client. So much of our thinking has centered on both what therapists do, or what...
-This book, which comprises contributions from many well known authors, takes an important step in the field of family therapy towards linking many fr...
This collection explores the potential synergy of bringing systemic and psychoanalytic therapy back into dialogue with each other, on new terms.
The editors have collected articles from partisans of both fields. The book tracks the ways in which innovative systemic practitioners are creatively reassembling the clinical and intellectual lineaments of psychodynamic and systems thinking in their work. While the strategies are many and varied, the collection as a whole reflects some of the deepest ideals and practices of both traditions at their best: holding complexity, tolerating...
This collection explores the potential synergy of bringing systemic and psychoanalytic therapy back into dialogue with each other, on new terms. ...
How do experiences of hope and despair impact upon our capacity to meet life's challenges in narrative and family therapy?
Clients' experiences of hope and despair can be complex, reflecting individual and family histories, current patterns and dynamics, the stresses of everyday life, and the social contexts of families' lives. This book analyses how therapists meet and engage with these dichotomous aspects of human experience.
The editors place the themes of hope and despair at the centre of a series of reflections on practice and theory. Contributors from all over the...
How do experiences of hope and despair impact upon our capacity to meet life's challenges in narrative and family therapy?
