Therapy Beyond Modernity: deconstructing and transcending profession-centred therapy
by Richard House .
ISBN 1 85575 996 9, 330+xvi pp, KARNAC price £19.99

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD by Professor Ian Parker
Introduction

PART I THE PROFESSION-CENTRED THERAPY FORM

1 Therapy in deconstructive perspective
2 Therapy’s ‘regime of truth’
3 Deconstructing profession-centred therapeutic practice, I: resistance; boundaries; holding; material generation
4 Deconstructing profession-centred therapeutic practice, II: confidentiality; safety; abuse; ethics

PART II ONSUMER’ EXPERIENCES OF PROFESSION-CENTRED THERAPEUTIC PRACTICE

5 Experiences of profession-centred therapeutic practice: Background issues
6 Rosie Alexander’s Folie a Deux
7 Ann France’s Consuming Psychotherapy
8 Anna Sands’ Falling for Therapy

PART III A NEW PARADIGM, POST-PROFESSIONAL ERA?

9 Precursor of postmodernity: the phenomenon of Georg Groddeck
10 The ‘New Paradigm’ challenge: intimations of a post-professional era

PART IV WHITHER ‘POST-PROFESSIONAL’ THERAPY?

11 Reflections on ‘profession-centred therapy’
12 Elaborations on the ‘post-professional’ era

Conclusion: Who Would Be a Therapist?

AFTERWORD by David Smail

References
A Select Bibliography: Critical Views on Therapy and Professionalization
Index