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Beyond the Therapeutic State
About this book
The therapeutic state is a pervasive set of practices and ideologies which have been ever present in the twentieth century. This book of international contributors is about bringing into question many of these reified, dogmatic ideologies.
Classifications, diagnosis and the treatments have been shown to be ineffectual for many populations across the globe, but still we persist with redundant, defunct methods and techniques. Why? Because, as some would suggest, we have nothing better. The danger that the state is taking away one of the last confidential spaces for people to allow thoughts to come to them has never been greater.
This book invites readers to think beyond the state and its therapeutics. It will be relevant to many professions, professionals, service users, families, survivors and organisations; and those who are looking for something different. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Beyond the Therapeutic State
- 1 The triumph of American psychiatry: How it created the modern therapeutic state
- 2 Children’s mental health: Time to stop using psychiatric diagnosis
- 3 Psychiatric diagnoses, ‘thought styles’, and ex post facto fact fallacies
- 4 Radical presence: Alternatives to the therapeutic state
- 5 The extended therapy room
- 6 From victimhood to sisterhood — A practice-based reflexive inquiry into narrative informed group work with women who have experienced sexual abuse
- 7 Psychotherapy and its alternatives: Commentary on a critique
- 8 Dark clouds
- 9 Altermodernity and the unfortunate need to train critical psychotherapists and counsellors
- Index