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`I enjoyed this book, and think that it should find a grateful and attentive readership in the practical field as well as being a central text in academic settings. It will also be well received by those, like myself, for whom the interest is more in deconstructing than psychotherapy' -Dialogues This book takes the discursive and postmodern turn in psychotherapy a significant step forward and will be of interest to all those working in mental health who are concerned with challenges to oppression and processes of emancipation. It achieves this by: reflecting on the role of psychotherapy in contemporary culture; developing critiques of language in psychotherapy that unravel its claims to personal truth
Therapy and Faith
Therapy and Faith
Faith is a strange word to find in a book which has its genesis in both postmodernism and critical theory. Not only is the viability of faith brought into question by much postmodern theorizing, but the notion of faith raises all kinds of implications concerning fundamentalism and truth, each of which I take to be rendered problematic by the intellectual movements which have given rise to this book. However, it seems appropriate to acknowledge at the outset that the practices of psychotherapy are historically closely allied with many of the practices of religious faith, and with the good intentions and structured power relations these invoke, including Christianity. But although the people who share their problems in the extracts ...
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