Deconstructing Psychotherapy

Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Bolton Institute. He is author of Psychoanalytic Culture (SAGE, 1997) and co-author of Deconstructing Psychopathology (SAGE, 1995).CONTRIBUTORSSteven D Brown Keele UniversityVivien Burr University of HuddersfieldAndrew Collier University of SouthamptonBronwyn Davies James Cook UniversityDon Foster University of Cape TownKenneth J Gergen Swarthmore CollegeRom Harre Oxford UniversityMaritza Montero Universidad Central de VenezuelaJonathan Potter Loughborough UniversityJoan Pujol University of HuddersfieldCarla Willig Middlesex University

• Deconstruction and Psychotherapy - Ian ParkerPART ONE: SOURCES AND CONTEXTS FOR THE DECONSTRUCTIVE TURNToward a Non-Regulative Praxis - John KayeDerrida and the Deconstruction of Power as Context and Topic in Therapy - Glenn LarnerClementis′s Hat - Vincent FishFoucault and the Politics of PsychotherapyBetween the `No Longer′ and the `Not Yet′ - Roger LowePostmodernism as a Context for Critical Therapeutic WorkFeminism, Politics and Power in Therapeutic Discourse - Nollaig O′Reilly Byrne and Imelda Colgan McCarthyFragments from the Fifth ProvincePART TWO: DECONSTRUCTION IN PRAXISNarrative, Foucault and Feminism - Vanessa SwanImplications for Therapeutic PracticeA Discursive Approach to Therapy with Men - Ian LawTherapy and Faith - Wendy Drewery with Wally McKenzieInscription, Description and Deciphering Chronic Identities - Stephen MadiganPART THREE: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC DISCOURSEThe Therapist as Client as Expert - John Morss and Maria NichterleinExternalizing Narrative TherapyCan (and Should) We Know How, Where and When Psychotherapy Takes Place? - Eero Riikonen and Sara Vataja

`The book is a welcome addition to literature in the field, however, and signals the need for more vigorous engagement and debate, informed by postmodern discourse, in South Africa′ - PINS`I enjoyed this book, and think that it should find a grateful and attentive readership in the practical field as well as being a central text in academic settings. It will also be well received by those, like myself, for whom the interest is more in deconstructing than psychotherapy′ -Dialogues