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This book deconstructs modern talking therapies, and frames mental health in a wider social context to show how societal structures restrict our opportunities. It is part of a trilogy which offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people's social environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal attributions.
List of contents
1. The hidden histories of clinical and therapeutic psychology 2. Contextualizing ‘mental health’ behaviours 3. What are the ‘bad situations’ which lead to the ‘mental health’ behaviours and other outcomes? 4. Contextualizing ‘mental health symptoms’ without diagnoses: Initial explorations 5. How can we change behaviour by changing local bad situations’? 6. How can we change language use and thinking in ‘mental health’? 7. How can we change behaviours shaped by the bad situations produced by societal structures of modernity? 8. Interventions for ‘mental health symptoms’ produced by colonization and patriarchal bad situations
About the author
Bernard Guerin has worked in both Australia and New Zealand researching and teaching to merge psychology with the social sciences. His main research now focuses on contextualizing ‘mental health’ behaviours, working with Indigenous communities, and exploring social contextual analyses especially for language use and thinking.
Summary
This book deconstructs modern talking therapies, and frames mental health in a wider social context to show how societal structures restrict our opportunities. It is part of a trilogy which offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people’s social environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal attributions.
