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Critical Issues in Psychotherapy examines new and existing models in psychotherapy and presents them in an accessible manner to the practitioner in training through illustrative therapy cases and practitioner commentaries. There are many new models that have emerged in psychotherapy in recent years; however; they have not often been made accessible to front line practitioners.
Commentary: The Dilemma of Realism and Antirealism: A Response to Held's Postmodern Turn
Commentary: The Dilemma of Realism and Antirealism: A Response to Held's Postmodern Turn
In her chapter, Barbara Held examines postmodernism and its implications for psychotherapy. From her perspective, postmodernism (especially in its social-constructionist forms) is characterized in part by its denial of “general, objective laws and truths in favor of local, unique, contextualized, or subjective ‘truths.’” She views postmodemism's flat rejection of independent, objective truths as a reflection of its commitment to “antirealism,” a form of “anti-objectivist” epistemology. Given the postmodernist commitment to antirealism, Held argues that at least two therapeutic implications follow.
First, because there are no “objective” truths of human nature and only multiple “subjective” truths, predetermined psychological theorizing ...
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