The Politics of Psychotherapy

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-335-22813-3
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

Autoren/Hrsg.

Totton, Nick

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction

Part 1: Psychotherapy in the political sphere

Politics on the couch? Psychotherapy and society - Some possibilities and some limitations

Societal trauma: Democracy in danger

Conflict, competition and aggression

The breast-milk of the inuit mother: A tale of micro and macrocosm, shadow and light

Part 2: Political dimensions of psychotherapy practice

The politics of sexuality, gender and object choice in therapy

Working with difference: The political context of psychotherapy with an intersubjective dialogue

Power in the therapeutic relationship

Part 3: Psychotherapy, the state and institutions
Values, ethics and the law: A story with some morals
The institutions of psychotherapy

Politics and psychotherapy in the context of healthcare Part 4: Working at the interface: Psychotherapy in political action
Transforming conflict into community: Post-war reconciliation in Croatia
Israeli psychotherapists and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Bridge Project: Radical psychotherapy for the 21st Century
How to create social activism: Turning the passive to active without killing each other Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Nick Totton originally trained in Reichian therapy in the early 1980s and since then has worked as a psychotherapist and trainer based in Leeds. He has an M.A. in Psychoanalytic Studies from Leeds Metropolitan University, where he used to teach. His other books published by Open University Press include Personality and Character Types (with Michael Jacobs), Body Psychotherapy and New Dimensions in Body Psychotherapy.