The politics of psychotherapy
Subtitle: new perspectives
By: edited by Nick Totton
Contributors: Totton, Nick
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Maidenhead, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Psychotherapy -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-197) and index
Table of contents: value: Politics on the couch? Psychotherapy and society, some possibilities and some limitations / Andrew Samuels; value: Societal trauma: democracy in danger / Sandra Bloom; value: Conflict, competition and aggression / Nick Totton; value: The breast-milk of the Inuit mother: a tale of micro- and macrocosm, shadow and light / Hilary Prentice and Mary-Jayne Rust; value: The politics of sexuality, gender and object choice in therapy / Chess Denman; value: Working with difference: the political context of psychotherapy with an intersubjective dialogue / Judy Ryde; value: Power in the therapeutic relationship / Nick Totton; value: Values, ethics and the law: a story with some morals / Petruska Clarkson; value: The institutions of psychotherapy / Nick Totton; value: Politics and psychotherapy in the context of healthcare / John Lees and Dawn Freshwater; value: Transforming conflict into community: post-war reconciliation in Croatia / Arlene Audergon and Lane Arye; value: Israeli psychotherapists and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Emanuel Berman; value: The Bridge Project: radical psychotherapy for the 21st century / Jocelyn Chaplin; value: How to create social activism: turning the passive into active without killing each other / Kate Gentile and Susan Gutwill