Modern Philosophy - 20th Century, Psychoanalytical Psychology, Counseling - General & Miscellaneous, Postmodernism, Masculinity
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Overview
For a long time the human sciences have debated the relationship between social structures - the group - and subjectivity - the individual, with much of the debate centering round areas such as identity (gender, race, sexuality), discourse (talk, conversation, the limits of language) and therapy. This book, by a well-known and highly respected academic in the cross-cutting fields of gender studies, therapy, and psychoanalysis, brings together important material on these debates, thus providing a substantial contribution to theory on the relationships between psychology, psychotherapy and social theory.
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Republishing nine of his essays from 1991 to 2002 that appeared in various academic publications, Frosh (psychology, Birkbeck College, U. of London, UK) addresses some of the implications of postmodernism to the practice of psychoanalysis. Of critical importance to his project is the insights of feminism, other forms of critical thought, and the encounter of systemic family therapy with postmodernism. Also of importance is his suggestion that there is some core in psychotherapy that goes beyond narrative (or words) and an effort to go beyond traditional relations between psychotherapist and patient as relations between "others." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
June 13, 2002
Publisher
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; Palgrave, 2002.
Pages
176
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780333963586