This book attempts to 'shake up' the current complacency around
therapy and 'mental health' behaviours by putting therapy fully
into context using Social Contextual Analysis; showing how changes
to our social, discursive, and societal environments, rather than
changes to an individual's 'mind', will reduce suffering from the
'mental health' behaviours. Guerin challenges many assumptions
about both current therapy and psychology, and offers alternative
approaches, synthesized from sociology, social anthropology,
sociolinguistics, and elsewhere. The book provides a way of
addressing the 'mental health' behaviours including actions,
talking, thinking, and emotions, by taking people's external life
situations into account, and not relying on an imagined 'internal
source'. Guerin describes the broad contexts for current Western
therapies, referring to social, discursive, cultural, societal, and
economic contexts, and suggests that we need to research the
components of therapies and stop treating therapies as units. He
reframes different types of therapy away from their abstract
jargons, offering an alternative approach grounded in our real
social worlds, aligning with new thinking that challenges the
traditional methods of therapy, and also providing a better
framework for rethinking psychology itself. The book ultimately
suggests more emphasis should be put on 'mental health' behaviours
as arising from social issues including the modern contexts of
extreme capitalism, excessive bureaucracy, weakened discursive
communities, and changing forms of social relationships. Practical
guidelines are provided for building the reimagined therapies into
clinics and institutions where labelling and pathologizing the
'mental health' behaviours will no longer be needed. By putting
'mental health' behaviours and therapy into a naturalistic or
ecological social sciences framework, this book will be practical
and fascinating reading for professional therapists, counsellors,
social workers, and mental health nurses, as well as academics
interested in psychology and the social sciences more generally.
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