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Narrative Therapy

Editat de Catrina Brown, Tod Augusta-Scott
en Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2006

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Narrative Therapy reușește să transforme teoria abstractă în instrumente clinice riguroase prin analiza unor cazuri de depresie feminină, tulburări de alimentație și consum de substanțe. Volumul nu se limitează la a descrie tehnici, ci chestionează „adevărurile” medicale consacrate, propunând în schimb o situare a suferinței în contextul discursurilor sociale și culturale. Apreciem în mod deosebit structura sa tripartită: prima parte analizează puterea în alianța terapeutică, a doua se concentrează pe mecanismele de auto-supraveghere și normalizare a corpului, iar ultima contestă viziunile esențialiste asupra identității.

Remarcăm că această lucrare este un manual de referință comparabil cu Therapy as Social Construction de Sheila McNamee, dar oferă o ancorare mult mai specifică în practica clinică a asistenței sociale, fiind adaptată nevoilor contemporane de reflexivitate. În timp ce Story Re-Visions se concentrează pe dimensiunea existențială a poveștilor, volumul editat de Catrina Brown și Tod Augusta-Scott menține un ton precis, clinic, punând sub semnul întrebării inclusiv determinismul genetic în cazul tulburărilor de comportament alimentar.

Din punct de vedere al evoluției academice, Narrative Therapy continuă direcțiile de cercetare ale Catrina Brown din lucrarea sa anterioară, Reframing Trauma Through Social Justice, consolidând ideea că trauma și suferința psihică nu pot fi separate de contextul politic și social. Progresia capitolelor, de la epistemologie la studii de caz despre homofobie interiorizată sau psihiatrie infantilă, oferă o acoperire exhaustivă a domeniului, transformând volumul într-o resursă fundamentală pentru profesioniștii care doresc să depășească modelul biomedical tradițional.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412909884
ISBN-10: 1412909880
Pagini: 370
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru psihoterapeuți și asistenți sociali care doresc să integreze construcționismul social în cabinet. Cititorul câștigă o metodologie clară de a deconstrui „poveștile dominante” care mențin patologia, oferind clienților posibilitatea de a-și rescrie propria identitate. Este o lectură necesară pentru a înțelege cum structurile de putere influențează sănătatea mentală, oferind alternative practice la abordările farmacocentrice sau strict individualiste.


Despre autor

Catrina Brown (M.A., M.S.W., Ph.D.) este profesor la Școala de Asistență Socială din cadrul Universității Dalhousie, cu specializări extinse în asistență medicală și studii feministe. Practician cu experiență, ea activează ca psihoterapeut cu focus pe tulburările de alimentație, traumă și depresie. Activitatea sa academică și clinică este dedicată reîncadrării problemelor de sănătate mentală ca probleme de justiție socială. A co-editat lucrări de referință despre imaginea corporală și abuz, expertiza sa fiind reflectată direct în rigoarea studiilor de caz prezentate în acest volum.


Descriere scurtă

á 'This volume is especially useful in demonstrating the effects of placing social discourses at the center of therapy. It gores many sacred cows of the larger modernist therapeutic community, but in doing so it offers new ideas for mental health professionals attempting to help their clients with common and serious life problems.'áááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááùPSYCCRITIQUES'This compilation is an insightful read for practitioners who have not taken the opportunity to use narrative therapy in practice...Experienced practitioners will certainly appreciate the theoretical analysis offered by the writers as well as the opportunity for reflective practice. Narrative Therapy is a meaningful contribution to a Canadian book market lacking in clinical literature for social workers'áááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááùCANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERSNarrative Therapy:áMaking Meaning, Making Livesáoffers a comprehensive introduction to and critique of narrative therapy and its theories. This edited volume introduces students to the history and theory of narrative therapy. Authors Catrina Brown and Tod Augusta-Scott situate this approach to theory and practice within the context of various feminist, post-modern and critical theories. Through the presentation of case studies, Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Livesáshows how this narrative-oriented theory can be applied in the client-therapist experience. Many important therapeutic situations (abuse, addictions, eating disorders, and more) are addressed from the narrative perspective.áá Rooted in social constructionism, and emerging initially from family therapy, narrative therapy emphasizes the idea that we live storied lives. Within this approach, the editors and contributors seek to show how we make sense of our lives and experiences by ascribing meaning through stories which themselves arise within social conversations and culturally available discourses. Our stories donÆt simply represent us or mirror lived events; they actually constitute usùshaping our lives as well as our relationships.áááNarrative Therapyáwill be a valuable supplemental textbookáfor theory and practice courses in departments of Counseling and Psychotherapy and of Social Work as well as for courses in Gender and Women Studies.á

Recenzii

"This book addresses so many of my unsettled questions at the narrative/ postmodern crossroads. The book is like an outstretched hand that arrived to take me from the edge of my thinking and invite me to venture a few steps further toward clarity and complexity. I found the book overall to be a mind-stretching invitation to turn up the volume on our reflexivity. It read like narrative theory to the second power (narrative X narrative) which offers expanded opportunities to be curious, multi-storied, and reflective — but also political and deconstructive."
"Blending modernist and postmodernist approaches, the contributors offer a variety of case studies that apply narrative therapy to a wide range of problems."
"This compilation is an insightful read for practitioners who have not taken the opportunity to use narrative therapy in practice...Experienced practitioners will certainly appreciate the theoretical analysis offered by the writers as well as the opportunity for reflective practice.  Narrative Therapy is a meaningful contribution to a Canadian book market lacking in clinical literature for social workers" —CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
"This volume is especially useful in demonstrating the effects of placing social discourses at the center of therapy.  It gores many sacred cows of the larger modernist therapeutic community, but in doing so it offers new ideas for mental health professionals attempting to help their clients with common and serious life problems."  —PSYCCRITIQUES

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Postmodernism, Reflexivity, and Narrative Therapy - Catrina Brown, Tod Augusta-Scott
PART I: WRITING IN THE SOCIAL
Ch 1. Situating Knowledge and Power in the Therapeutic Alliance - Catrina Brown
Ch 2. Re-storying Women's Depression: A Material-Discursive Approach - Michelle N. Lafrance, Janet M. Stoppard
Ch 3. The Blinding Power of Genetics: Manufacturing and Privatizing Stories of Eating Disorders - Karin Jasper
Ch 4. Poetics of Resistance: Compassionate Practice in Substance Misuse Therapy - Colin James Sanders
Ch 5. Practicing Psychiatry Through a Narrative Lens: Working With Children, Youth, and Families - Normand Carrey
PART II: SELF-SURVEILLANCE: NORMALIZING PRACTICES OF SELF
Ch 6. Discipline and Desire: Regulating the Body/Self - Catrina Brown
Ch 7. Watching the Other Watch: A Social Location of Problems - Stephen Madigan
Ch 8. Internalized Homophobia: Lessons From the Mobius Strip - Glenda M. Russell
PART III: CHALLENGING ESSENTIALISM
Ch 9. Dethroning the Suppressed Voice: Unpacking Experience as Story - Catrina Brown
Ch 10.Conversations With Men About Women's Violence: Ending Men's Violence by Challenging Gender Essentialism - Tod Augusta-Scott
Ch 11. Challenging Essentialist Anti-Oppressive Discourse: Uniting Against Racism and Sexism - Tod Augusta-Scott
PART IV: RE-AUTHORING PREFERRED IDENTITIES
Ch 12. Movement of Identities: A Map for Therapeutic Conversations About Trauma - Jim Duvall, Laura Beres
Ch 13. Letters From Prison: Re-authoring Identity With Men Who Have Perpetrated Sexual Violence - Tod Augusta-Scott
Ch 14: Talking Body Talk: Blending Narrative and Feminist Approaches to Therapy - Catrina Brown
About the Editors
About the Contributors

Notă biografică

Catrina Brown, M.A., M.S.W., Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the School of Social Work at Dalhousie University in Halifax,  cross-appointed to Women¿s Studies and Nursing. She is  also a feminist psychotherapist in private practice with a focus on eating ¿disorders¿.  She is the co-editor of Consuming Passions: Feminist Approaches to Eating Disorders and Weight Preoccupation. She conducts research in the area of women, eating ¿disorders¿, body image, trauma and sexual abuse, depression, and alcohol use problems.