Deconstructing psychotherapy / edited by Ian Parker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Putting forward the latest arguments on the discursive and postmodern turn in psychotherapy, the contributors reflect on the role of psychotherapy in contemporary culture, and the project of therapy is opened up to critical attention.

Deconstruction and Psychotherapy / Ian Parker -- Part One. Sources and Contexts for the Deconstructive Turn -- Toward a Non-Regulative Praxis / John Kaye -- Derrida and the Deconstruction of Power as Context and Topic in Therapy / Glenn Larner -- Clementis's Hat: Foucault and the Politics of Psychotherapy / Vincent Fish -- Between the 'No Longer' and the 'Not Yet': Postmodernism as a Context for Critical Therapeutic Work / Roger Lowe -- Feminism, Politics and Power in Therapeutic Discourse: Fragments from the Fifth Province / Nollaig O'Reilly Byrne and Imelda Colgan McCarthy -- Part Two. Deconstruction in Praxis -- Narrative, Foucault and Feminism: Implications for Therapeutic Practice / Vanessa Swan -- A Discursive Approach to Therapy with Men / Ian Law -- Therapy and Faith / Wendy Drewery with Wally McKenzie -- Inscription, Description and Deciphering Chronic Identities / Stephen Madigan -- Part Three. Deconstructing Psychotherapeutic Discourse -- The Therapist as Client as Expert: Externalizing Narrative Therapy / John Morss and Maria Nichterlein -- Can (and Should) We Know How, Where and When Psychotherapy Takes Place? / Eero Riikonen and Sara Vataja.

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