Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice

339 Pages·2015·1.89 MB·English

by  Del Loewenthal (eds.)

Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling
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Critical Psychotherapy,
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Implications for Practice
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Del Loewenthal
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Contents
ListofTablesandFigures viii
Acknowledgements ix
Authors’Biographies,AbstractsandSelf-Critiques xi
Part I Introduction
1 TalkingTherapies,Culture,theStateandNeoliberalism:
IsThereaNeedforCriticalPsychotherapy,Psychoanalysis
andCounselling? 3
DelLoewenthal
Part II WhatCanWeLearnfromCriticalPsychiatry
andCriticalPsychology?
2 TheMedicalModel:WhatIsIt,WhereDidItComefrom
andHowLongHasItGot? 29
HughMiddleton
3 TowardsCriticalPsychotherapyandCounselling:What
CanWeLearnfromCriticalPsychology(andPolitical
Economy)? 41
IanParker
4 TheNeurobiologicalTurninTherapeuticTreatment:
SalvationorDevastation? 53
KennethJ.Gergen
Part III Users’Perspectives
5 PersonalversusMedicalMeaningsinBreakdown,
TreatmentandRecoveryfrom‘Schizophrenia’ 77
TomCottonandDelLoewenthal
v
vi Contents
Part IV CritiquesComingMorefromOutside
6 CriticalTheoryandPsychotherapy 95
AnastasiosGaitanidis
7 WhenLoveIsNotAllWeWant:Queers,Singlesandthe
TherapeuticCultofRelationality 108
MariRutiandAdrianCocking
8 RelatingtoPeopleasRevolutionaries 125
LoisHolzman
9 WorkinContemporaryCapitalism 138
MichaelRustin
Part V CritiquesComingMorefromInside
10 EverythingYouAlwaysWantedtoKnowaboutTherapy
(ButWereAfraidtoAsk):FragmentsofaCritical
Psychotherapy 159
AndrewSamuels
11 CriticalPrioritiesforthePsychotherapyandCounselling
Community 175
ColinFeltham
12 TheDeleuzianProject 189
ChrisOakley
13 PsychoanalysisandtheEventofResistance 200
StevenGroarke
14 Psychology,Psychotherapy–Coming
toOurSenses? 222
PaulMoloney
Part VI CritiquesofTrainingandLearning
15 ContestingtheCurriculum:CounsellorEducationina
PostmodernandMedicalisingEra 241
TomStrong,KarenH.Ross,KonstantinosChondrosand
MonicaSesma-Vazquez
16 SystemicMeanstoSubversiveEnds:Maintainingthe
TherapeuticSpaceasaUniqueEncounter 264
JayWatts
Contents vii
Part VII IsThereanUnfortunateNeedforCritical
Psychotherapy,PsychoanalysisandCounselling?
17 Psychotherapy,PsychoanalysisandCounsellingfor
OppressorsandOppressed:Sex,ViolenceandIdeologyin
Practice? 285
DelLoewenthal
Index 303
Tables and Figures
Tables
16.1 Sampledeconstructionistquestions 273
16.2 ‘Situatingprofessionals’exercise 276
Figures
15.1 Whohassomethingatstakeincounselloreducation? 246
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Acknowledgements
I should first like to thank my parents who, when I was young, for
many years had two lodgers, one a Daily Telegraph-reading tax inspec-
tor and the other a communist shop steward. As a result, I read both
the Daily Telegraph and such books as William Gallacher’s Revolt on the
Clyde.Thesetwoforcesofindividualismversussocialactionhavetaken
different guises at different points in my life, varying from facilitating
management development for chief executives to helping to develop
communityenterprises.Myowndoctorate,whichIstartedover40years
ago, again looked at how individuals escape from self-awareness and
conspire with those who wish to control how they think. Again when
I was growing up, my father’s best friend, who was an arch capitalist,
was particularly worried that the Italian Communist Party would lead
Europeintoanewrenaissance.Asaresult,heboughtItaliannewspapers
onanalmostdailybasis,sayingthatitwasvitaltounderstandthemif
we were to beat them. Unlike most of my contemporaries, therefore,
Iwasnotbroughtuptothinkthattherewouldbedireconsequencesas
aresultofdiscussingandtryingtounderstandthatwhichonemightbe
opposedto–infactquitethereverse.
Aftermanyyearsoftrainingcounsellorsandpsychotherapists,inpar-
ticularregardingtheimplicationsofscepticism/continentalphilosophy
for their practices, I have in this book wondered if such approaches
are permissible in late capitalism precisely because they avoid the like-
lihoodofanythingmoreradical.Howmymorerecenttrainofthought
came about I am not too sure. What I do remember is having a con-
versation with my colleague James Davies and writing an editorial for
the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling entitled ‘Is there an
unfortunateneedforcriticalpsychotherapyandcounselling?’Asacon-
sequence, I was approached by Nicola Jones from Palgrave Macmillan,
whopersuadedmetowritethisbook.
MysubsequentthanksgotomembersoftheUniversitiesPsychother-
apy&CounsellingAssociationCouncil,whoapprovedmyrunningits,
what turned out to be well-attended, annual conference, Critical psy-
chotherapyandcounselling–ifnotnow,when?(thephrasingforwhich
IhaveAndrewSamuelstothank).Therearemanymorepeopletothank
fromhere.Firstarethedistinguishedcontributorswhosoablymetmy
changing deadlines and coped with my attempts at communication.
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