Re-Imagining Therapy - Living Conversations and Relational Knowing

Klappentext Re-imagining Therapy explores the benefits to therapeutic practice of paying attention to how people relate to and with language - how ways of talking support different kinds of relationships and experiences. The authors draw on social constructionist! dialogic! narrative and solution-oriented approaches to argue that `detachment' and `objectivity' have impoverished our ways of understanding life and language. They focus on words and language as tools! gestures and actions through which therapy can work to build a sense of promise and trust. Zusammenfassung The text draws upon social constructionist! dialogic! narrative and solution-focused approaches to argue that "detachment" and "objectivity" have impoverished our ways of understanding life and language and that therapy should be built on a sense of promise and trust from language and gestures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Kenneth J Gergen and Sheila McNameeOrientationsTowards Discursive and Human Metaphors of TherapyMetaphors of Words and TalkProcesses of Re-EnchantmentMetaphors of Therapy and Good InteractionLiving ConversationsAttempts at Closure

Product details

• Authors: Eero Riikonen, Eero Smith Riikonen, Gregory Madan Smith
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.1997
• EAN: 9780803976542
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7654-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Inquiries in Social Constructi; Inquiries in Social Construction Series; Inquiries in Social Constructi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology