Routledge International Handbook of Postmodern Therapies

The Routledge International Handbook of Postmodern Therapies includes contributions by leading international experts to provide an invaluable resource and reference for therapy students, scholars, educators, and practitioners.

List of contents

PART I
Introduction to postmodern therapies
1 We have always been postmodern: A new past for a future postmodern psychotherapy
Paul Stenner and Maria Nichterlein
2 Theoretical underpinnings of therapeutic practice after modernism
Kenneth Gergen and Sheila McNamee
3 What can postmodern therapies learn from dang-ki healing about the cultural ontology of the self?
Boon-Ooi Lee
4 Happiness at work in the context of growing precariousness and labor instability
Edgar Cabanas and Daniel Nehring
5 Postmodernism, decolonial critiques, and liberatory praxis
Rhea Almeida and J. Corey Williams
6 Publishing and postmodern therapy: Delphi responses from the editors of five family therapy journals
Jim Duvall, Glenn Larner, Jay Lebow, Philip Messent, and Rachel Tambling
With after reflections from Harlene Anderson and Del Loewenthal
PART II
Key postmodern approaches
7 Collaborative-dialogic practice
Harlene Anderson
8 Narrative therapy
Tom Stone Carlson and Sanni Paljakka
9 Solution focused brief therapy
Peter De Jong, Jennifer Gerwing, and Sara Healing
10 The reflecting team
Anna Sidis
11 Open dialogue
Tomi Bergström, Mia Kurtti, Andrew Duthie, Kari Valtanen, and Jaakko Seikkula
12 Socio-emotional relationship therapy
Carmen Knudson-Martin
13 Bringforthist therapy
Karl Tomm, Faye Gosnell, Emily Doyle, Marc Ross, and Joaquín Gaete-Silva
14 Systemic-dialogical therapy
Paolo Bertrando and Claudia Lini
15 Social therapy and social therapeutics Lois Holzman
16 Post-existential therapy
Simon Wharne
17 Pluralistic therapy
Christine Kupfer and John McLeod
18 Integrative systemic therapy
Lennart Lorås and Kristoffer J. Whittaker
19 Integrative community therapy
Marilene Grandesso and Emerson F. Rasera
PART III
Socio-cultural context
20 Re-worlding therapy's narrative: A demodern and decolonial reconstitution of healing
marcela polanco, Christian Beraud Fernández, Carlos Chico Ramos, Elizabeth Barajas, Nihan Eryonucu, Ingrid Guerrieri, and Yasmine Willis Fernandez
21 Structures of feeling in gender, bodies, and technology
Sarah Riley and Adrienne Evans
22 Systemic racism and the differential racializations of Black and non-Black people of color in white space
William Ming Liu and Rossina Zamora Liu
23 The deconstruction of monologic spaces: When white meta-narrativity silences
George Yancy
24 Queering therapeutic conversations: More than "affirmative" and not just for queers
Julie Tilsen, Kristen E. Benson, and David Nylund
25 Cripping and thickening therapy: Making space for bodymind difference
Meredith Bessey, Elisabeth Harrison, Sonia Meerai, Kaley Roosen, Allison Taylor, and Carla Rice
26 Postmodern therapies in a neoliberal world
Gene Combs and Jill Freedman
27 Therapeutic practice as transmaterial worlding
Leah Salter and Gail Simon
PART IV
Research
28 Methodological foundations and innovations in postmodern therapy research
Ronald J. Chenail, Dan Wulff, Sally St. George, and Dragana Ilic
29 Using narrative inquiry and qualitative research to support postmodern psychotherapy practice
John McLeod
30 Professional development for counselors, psychologists, and therapists by using Reflective Interventionist Conversation Analysis
Michelle O'Reilly, Nikki Kiyimba, and Jessica Lester
31 Poststructuralism: A preface to post qualitative inquiry
Elizabeth A. St.Pierre
32 Contributions of dialogical self theory to psychotherapy theory, research and practice
Miguel M. Gonçalves, Hubert H. J. M. Hermans, João Batista, and João T. Oliveira
33 If it's all socially constructed, how do we do research? Powering together in action research for transformations
Hilary Bradbury
34 Performative social science: Linking art, science, and society
Günter Mey and Rainer Winter
PART V
Education and training
35 Clinical supervision: Making products or a profession?
Joaquín Gaete-Silva, Jeff Chang, and Inés Sametband
36 Pedagogy for practitioners: Post-oppositional teaching tactics for transformation
Eileen Chung and AnaLouise Keating
37 Training and supervision of psychotherapists with the focus on dialogical skills: The Finnish case
Aarno Laitila, Pekka Borchers, Ilpo Kuhlman, and Eija-Liisa Rautiainen
38 Postmodern pedagogy and the ongoing development of teaching and sustaining skills of critical reflection on practice
Laura Béres, Stephanie L. Baird, Jane E. Sanders, and Rosemary Vito
39 Indigenizing the classroom: Bringing critical kinship to family studies
Sarina Perchak, Andrea V. Breen, and Kim Anderson
PART VI
Applications
40 The witness to witness program: Evolving curricula to serve social justice principles
Kaethe Weingarten, Pamela Secada-Sayles, and Jessica Calderón
41 Listening: An everyday expectation
Dan Wulff and Sally St. George
42 Grief therapy as meaning reconstruction: From symptoms to significance
Robert A. Neimeyer and Carolyn Ng
43 Co-creating public values
Dina von Heimburg, Ottar Ness, Jacob Storch, and Tom Strong
44 The justness of collaborative-dialogic practices in child protection
Rocío Chaveste, Khadija Al-Sarhi, Henrike van der Hoeven, Anne Vijverberg, and Otto Sestak
45 Re-centering silenced disaster trauma and healing in neoliberal context: Integrating social constructionist and decolonization approaches
Kumar Ravi Priya, Shilpi Kukreja, and Neha Jain
46 Imbeleko approach to counseling: Developing culturally resonant talking therapy services
Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo
47 Empowering families and networks struggling with substance use and addictions through an open dialogue approach
Pavel Nepustil and Tanya Mudry

About the author

Olga Smoliak, PhD, is a professor of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph, Canada. She is interested in advancing critical and discursive perspectives and inquiry in counselling/psychotherapy and family therapy.
Eleftheria Tseliou, PhD, is professor of Research Methodology and Qualitative Methods at the University of Thessaly (Greece) and a systemic therapist. She is also president of the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology (EQuiP). She is interested in discursive qualitative methodologies and systemic/postmodern, and counseling/psychotherapy process research.
Tom Strong, PhD, is a professor and counsellor-educator who recently retired from the University of Calgary. He writes on the collaborative, critical, and practical potentials of discursive approaches to psychotherapy.
Saliha Bava, PhD, LMFT is program director and professor of marriage and family therapy at Mercy University, NY. She is the co-founding Board member of the International Certificate Program in Collaborative-Dialogic Practices (ICCP) and Board member of Taos Institute. Her scholarship and consultation focus on critical discursive change practices in psychotherapy, educational, organizational and social context.
Peter Muntigl, is a staff scientist in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University (Belgium) and an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University (Canada). His recent publications include Interaction in Psychotherapy (2024, Cambridge University Press).

Product details

• Authors: Olga Tseliou Smoliak
• Assisted by: Saliha Bava (Editor), Muntigl Peter (Editor), Olga Smoliak (Editor), Strong Tom (Editor), Eleftheria Tseliou (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032452661
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245266-1
• No. of pages: 680
• Series: Routledge International Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Family psychology, Psychotherapy, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services