The Politics of Psychotherapy: New Perspectives
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Open University Press
Published:16th Feb '06
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This unique collection by leading authors explores the links between therapy and the political world, and their contribution to each other. Topics covered include:
- Psychotherapy in the political sphere, including the roots of conflict, social trauma, and ecopsychology
- Political dimensions of psychotherapy practice, such as discrimination, power, sexuality, and postcolonial issues
- Psychotherapy, the state and institutions, including the law and ethics, and psychotherapy in healthcare
- Working at the interface, examples of therapy in political action from Croatia, the USA, the UK and Israel/Palestine
Contributors: Lane Arye, Arlene Audergon, Emanuel Berman, Sandra Bloom, Jocelyn Chaplin, Petruska Clarkson, Chess Denman, Dawn Freshwater, Kate Gentile, John Lees, Renos Papadopoulos, Hilary Prentice, Mary-Jayne Rust, Judy Ryde, Andrew Samuels, Nick Totton.
ISBN: 9780335216536
Dimensions: 230mm x 155mm x 10mm
Weight: 340g
224 pages