Deconstructing Psychotherapy 
edited by Ian Parker

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This book takes the discursive and postmodern turn in psychotherapy a significant step forward and will be of interest to all those working in mental health who are concerned with challenges to oppression and processes of emancipation. It achieves this by: reflecting on the role of psychotherapy in contemporary culture; developing critiques of language in psychotherapy that unravel its claims to personal truth; and the reworking of a place in the transformative therapeutic practice.

Deconstruction is brought to bear on the key conceptual and pragmatic issues that therapists and clinical psychologists face, and the project of therapy is opened up to critical attention and reconstruction. The book provides clear reviews of different viewpoints and will help readers to understand the complex terrain of debates.

CONTENTS

PART ONE: SOURCES AND CONTEXTS FOR THE DECONSTRUCTIVE TURN
John Kaye
Toward a Non-Regulative Praxis
Glenn Larner
Derrida and the Deconstruction of Power as Context and Topic in Therapy
Vincent Fish
Clementis's Hat
Foucault and the Politics of Psychotherapy
Roger Lowe
Between the `No Longer' and the `Not Yet'
Postmodernism as a Context for Critical Therapeutic Work
Nollaig O'Reilly Byrne and Imelda Colgan McCarthy
Feminism, Politics and Power in Therapeutic Discourse
Fragments from the Fifth Province

PART TWO: DECONSTRUCTION IN PRAXIS
Vanessa Swan
Narrative, Foucault and Feminism
Implications for Therapeutic Practice
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Ian Law
A Discursive Approach to Therapy with Men
Wendy Drewery with Wally McKenzie
Therapy and Faith
Stephen Madigan
Inscription, Description and Deciphering Chronic Identities

PART THREE: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC DISCOURSE
John Morss and Maria Nichterlein
The Therapist as Client as Expert
Externalizing Narrative Therapy
Eero Riikonen and Sara Vataja
Can (and Should) We Know How, Where and When Psychotherapy Takes Place?