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Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism
Practice Challenges Theory
Author: Flaskas Carmel
Language: EnglishSubject for Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism:
Keywords
social; constructionist; ideas; practice; challenges; theory; systemic; discussions; psychoanalytic; projective; Young Man; John Byng Hall; Practice Challenges Theory; Practice Reflection; Main Frame; Luigi Boscolo; Social Constructionist Ideas; Object Relations Family Therapy; White’s Narrative Therapy; Family Therapy Discussions; Family Therapy; Psychoanalytic Ideas; Systemic Family Therapy; Empathic Orientation; Sneaky Poo; Baseline Discussion; German Studies Scholar; Stuck Time; Family Therapy Literature; Postmodernist Ideas; Postmodernist Limits; Milan Therapy; Projective Identification Offer; Systemic Therapy; Family Therapy Theory
Publication date: 08-2002
224 p. · Paperback
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Add to cart the book of Flaskas CarmelPublication date: 08-2002
224 p. · Hardback
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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 therapy practice, in particular:
* attachment and the unconscious
* transference, projective identification and understandings of time
* psychoanalytic ideas about thinking and containment in the therapeutic relationship.
Family Therapy Beyond Postmodernism offers a sustained critical discussion of the possibilities and limits of contemporary family therapy knowledge, and develops a place for psychoanalytic ideas in systemic thinking and practice. It will be of great interest to family therapists, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals.
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.