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In this book we present a comprehensive view of a systemic approach
to working with families, initiated by Karl Tomm more than two
decades ago at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre in Canada. The
contributors of this edited book articulate the IPscope framework
as it was originally designed and its evolution over time. We
invite you, experienced professionals and new family therapists, to
join with us to explore some of the mysteries of human
relationships. While the focus on our explorations revolves around
clinical mental health problems and initiatives towards solutions,
the concepts are applicable in many domains of daily life. They
highlight the ways in which we, as persons, invite each other into
recurrent patterns of interaction that generate and maintain some
stability in our continuously changing relationships. The
stabilities arise when our invitations become coupled and can be
characterized as mutual; yet, they always remain transient. What is
of major significance is that these transient relational
stabilities can have major positive or negative effects in our
lives. Consequently, we could all potentially benefit from greater
awareness of the nature of these patterns, how particular patterns
arise, and how we might be able to influence them.
This book addresses the premise that therapy can be understood,
practiced, and researched as a discursive activity. Using varied
forms of discourse analysis, it examines the cultural,
institutional, and face-to-face communications that shape, and
occur within, therapies that are discursively understood and
practiced. By first providing an overview of commonalities across
discursive therapies and research approaches, the authors
discursively examine general aspects of therapy. Topics explored
include subjectivity, psychological terms, institutional
influences, therapeutic relationships, therapists' ways of talking
and questioning, discursive ethics, and assessment of therapeutic
processes and outcomes. This book offers a macro-analysis of the
conversational practices of a discursively informed approach to
therapy; as well as a micro-analysis of the ways in which language
shapes and is used in a discursively informed approach to therapy.
This book will interest practitioners seeking to better understand
therapy as a discursive process, and discourse analysts wanting to
understand therapy as discursive therapists might practice it.
This book addresses the premise that therapy can be understood,
practiced, and researched as a discursive activity. Using varied
forms of discourse analysis, it examines the cultural,
institutional, and face-to-face communications that shape, and
occur within, therapies that are discursively understood and
practiced. By first providing an overview of commonalities across
discursive therapies and research approaches, the authors
discursively examine general aspects of therapy. Topics explored
include subjectivity, psychological terms, institutional
influences, therapeutic relationships, therapists' ways of talking
and questioning, discursive ethics, and assessment of therapeutic
processes and outcomes. This book offers a macro-analysis of the
conversational practices of a discursively informed approach to
therapy; as well as a micro-analysis of the ways in which language
shapes and is used in a discursively informed approach to therapy.
This book will interest practitioners seeking to better understand
therapy as a discursive process, and discourse analysts wanting to
understand therapy as discursive therapists might practice it.
In this book we present a comprehensive view of a systemic approach
to working with families, initiated by Karl Tomm more than two
decades ago at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre in Canada. The
contributors of this edited book articulate the IPscope framework
as it was originally designed and its evolution over time. We
invite you, experienced professionals and new family therapists, to
join with us to explore some of the mysteries of human
relationships. While the focus on our explorations revolves around
clinical mental health problems and initiatives towards solutions,
the concepts are applicable in many domains of daily life. They
highlight the ways in which we, as persons, invite each other into
recurrent patterns of interaction that generate and maintain some
stability in our continuously changing relationships. The
stabilities arise when our invitations become coupled and can be
characterized as mutual; yet, they always remain transient. What is
of major significance is that these transient relational
stabilities can have major positive or negative effects in our
lives. Consequently, we could all potentially benefit from greater
awareness of the nature of these patterns, how particular patterns
arise, and how we might be able to influence them.
Social Constructionism: Sources and Stirrings in Theory and
Practice offers an introduction to the different theorists and
schools of thought that have contributed to the development of
contemporary social constructionist ideas, charting a course
through the ideas that underpin the discipline. From the New
Science of Vico in the 18th century, through to Marxist writers,
ethnomethodologists and Wittgenstein, ideas as to how
socio-cultural processes provide the resources that make us human
are traced to the present day. Despite constructionists often being
criticised as 'relativists', 'activists' and 'anti-establishment'
and for making no concrete contributions, their ideas are now being
adopted by practically-oriented disciplines such as management
consultancy, advertising, therapy, education and nursing. Andy Lock
and Tom Strong aim to provoke a wider grasp of an alternative
history and tradition that has developed alongside the one
emphasised in traditional histories of the social sciences.
For an endeavour that is largely based on conversation it may seem
obvious to suggest that psychotherapy is discursive. After all,
therapists and clients primarily use talk, or forms of discourse,
to accomplish therapeutic aims. However, talk or discourse has
usually been seen as secondary to the actual business of therapy -
a necessary conduit for exhanging information between therapist and
client, but seldom more. Psychotherapy primarily developed by
mapping particular experiential domains in ways responsive to human
intervention. Only recently though has the role that discourse
plays been recognized as a focus in itself for analysis and
intervention. Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice
presents an overview of discursive perspectives in therapy, along
with an account of their conceptual underpinnings. The book starts
by setting out the case for a discursive and relational approach to
therapy by justaposing it to the tradition that that leads to the
diagnostic approach of the DSM-V and medical psychiatry. It then
presents a thorough review of a range of innovative discursive
methods, each presented by an authority in their respective area.
The book shows how discursive therapies can help people construct a
better sense of their world, and move beyond the constraints caused
by the cultural preconceptions, opinions, and values the client has
about the world. The book makes a unique contribution to the
philosophy and psychiatry literature in examining both the
philosophical bases of discursive therapy, whilst also showing how
discursive perspectives can be applied in real therapeutic
situations. The book will be of great value and interest to
psychotherapists and psychiatrists wishing to understand, explore,
and apply these innovative techniques.
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