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Therapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing Edited by J. Wyatt Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019. 213 pp. ISBN: 978–1–138-89762-5 (hbk), ISBN: 978–1–138-89770-0 (pbk), ISBN: 978–1–315-17879-0 (ebk)
Get PDFTherapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing Edited by J. Wyatt Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019. 213 pp. ISBN: 978–1–138-89762-5 (hbk), ISBN: 978–1–138-89770-0 (pbk), ISBN: 978–1–315-17879-0 (ebk
Crossing Cultures with the Power Threat Meaning Framework
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Counselling, class and politics: undeclared influences in therapy Edited by A. Kearney Manchester, UK: PCCS Books, 1996. ISBN-10: 1898059098, ISBN-13: 978-1898059097
Get PDFCounselling, class and politics: undeclared influences in therapy Edited by A. Kearney Manchester, UK: PCCS Books, 1996. ISBN-10: 1898059098, ISBN-13: 978-189805909
A Jungian perspective on the unity of mind and body and its relevance to 21st-century politics
Get PDFThis article begins by putting basic themes in Jung's psychoanalytic in the context of present-day conceptual predilections that warrant questioning, specifically in relation to feeling and to being a body. The questioning leads to insights into the dynamic congruency of emotions and movement, to the political reality of demonstrations, protests, marches and so on, and from there to Jung's notion of a “psychic epidemic,” an epidemic that takes hold by way of a “totalitarian mass state.” At one point, Jung states that such epidemics can be mitigated only by “collective therapy.” Jung does not describe this form of therapy. On the way to specifying and describing just what practice might constitute “collective therapy,” the article focuses on what Jung specifies as the interconnected nature of the self, the living body, symbolic thought and the basic unity of psyche and body. The article's specification and description of “collective therapy” is anchored first in a real-life, real-time 20th-century description of the international power of kinetic silence. The article then documents the historical nature of that power by way of classicists' descriptions of real-life, real-time community circle dances that silently attest to the value of moving in concert
The future of psychological therapy: from managed care to transformational practice Edited by John Lees. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016. 196 pp. ISBN 978-1138886384
Get PDFThe future of psychological therapy: from managed care to transformational practice Edited by John Lees. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016. 196 pp. ISBN 978-113888638
Lacan and Althusser on psychology: The political ethos of serving ideals and justifying ideology
Get PDFThe French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan denounced psychology as a procedure of objectification that serves particular ideals in society and fulfils the social functions of ideologisation, adaptation and exploitation. Likewise, almost at the same time and also in France, the Marxist theoretician Louis Althusser stated his disapproval of psychological theories because they justified ideology either by assuming the existence of natural-individual tendencies as its foundation or by pathologising everything that contradicts it in the individual realm. After reviewing these critical approaches to psychology, this article will defend the idea that any theoretical or practical psychological work is not completely free to determine its guiding values, principles, rules and norms, as it must adhere to the predetermined functions that have been imposed on psychology and are clearly explained by Lacan and Althusser. The social-ideological functions of psychology logically restrict, orientate and underlie its ethos, which consequently includes the inescapable political imperatives that govern psychological theory and practice. For instance, the basic theoretical dualist operation that constitutes psychology—the one that distinguishes the psyche from the body and the world—is a political gesture that cannot be abstracted from class society, from its division of labour and its classist ideology, as was demonstrated by Marx and Engels
Touching the untouchables
Get PDFThis paper presents a model of dance movement psychotherapy/body psychotherapy that deploys touch and movement techniques from a somatic movement education and therapy approach called Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®). The case study is situated in the context of the UK National Health Service, in adult learning disability services. Reference to a case study serves to illustrate the value of touch to the therapeutic process and demonstrates that touch is integral to communication and relationship, including issues of capacity and consent. The case study clarifies the role that a humanistic, person-centred dance movement psychotherapy approach has to offer to address the patient's clinical need, and the socio-political implications of the work in a predominantly non-touch care culture. The devaluing of touch and confusion around the use of touch is considered within the context of health and social care. Staff training provision involving touch methods is presented as a constructive solution to improving the quality of care provided to clients, to enhancing understanding and providing effective strategies to deal with these issues. A review of non-touch policies is recommended, with due consideration of factors such as touch deprivation and in recognition of the contribution that human contact—and so touch—can bring to bear on the health and wellbeing of the most vulnerable in society
SCoPEd: How counselling and psychotherapy found itself in the midst of an identity-crisis
Get PDFThis paper offers a personal account of resisting the Scope of Practice and Education framework, developed by three of the United Kingdom's leading counselling and psychotherapy professional bodies, through the eyes of a practitioner who has recently entered the field. The author argues that the project's development is politically motivated, misaligned with therapeutic values and methodologically flawed
The body politic: The changing face of psychotherapy and transgender
Get PDFTo support gender diversity in clinical practice, psychotherapists need to provide culturally competent, developmentally appropriate and trans-affirmative care with trans and gender nonconforming people. This article explores the trans body, the trans identity, and the issues that arise in psychotherapy. It examines psychological wellbeing within the trans population and offers a rationale for body psychotherapy approaches to these issues, before exploring the politicisation of the trans body in our culture and the ethical issues that surround trans youth. The increased political focus on the topic has bought about legislation affecting trans rights. Psychotherapists need to be at the forefront of engagement with these changes and their implications for this population. To achieve this, this paper concludes that therapists today must build political and personal self-awareness, taking care to examine their biases and avoid perpetuating unethical, harmful or limited perceptions of gender in the psychotherapy encounter