Reimagining therapy through social contextual analyses

by Guerin, Bernard

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Full title :Reimagining therapy through social contextual analyses / Bernard Guerin.

Summary

"This book attempts to 'shake up' the current complacency around therapy and 'mental health' behaviours by putting therapy fully into context using Social Contextual Analysis, showing how changes to our social, discursive and societal environments, rather than changes to an individual's 'mindset', will reduce suffering from the 'mental health' behaviours. Guerin challenges many assumptions about both current therapy and psychology, and offers alternative approaches, synthesised from sociology, social anthropology, sociolinguistics, and elsewhere. The book provides a way of addressing the 'mental health' behaviours including actions, talking, thinking, and emotions, by taking people's external life situations into account, and not relying on an imagined 'internal source'. Guerin describes the broad contexts for current Western therapies, referring to social, discursive, cultural, societal, and economic contexts. He re-frames different types of therapy away from their abstract jargons, offering an alternative approach grounded in our real social worlds, aligning with new thinking that challenges the traditional methods of therapy, and also providing a better framework for rethinking psychology itself. The book ultimately suggests more emphasis should be put on 'mental health' behaviours as arising from social issues including the modern contexts of extreme capitalism, excessive bureaucracy, weakened discursive communities, and changing forms of social relationships. By putting 'mental health' behaviours and therapy into a naturalistic or ecological social sciences framework, this book is fascinating reading for professional therapists, counsellors, social workers, and mental health nurses, as well as academics interested in psychology and the social sciences more generally. Guidelines are provided for building the reimagined therapies into clinics and institutions where labelling and pathologizing the 'mental health' behaviours will no longer be needed"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2023.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2023.

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Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781003300571, 100330057X
oclc:on1322060895
LC Classification:RC455
Dewey Decimal:616.89/14

Psychology, pop-psychology, and common-sense psychology : Whatever were they thinking for 150 years? -- What are the contexts for therapies you need to be aware of? -- What do therapists say about what they do? Theories and marketing of therapy -- What do therapists do, in general? 'Applying treatments' as a misleading metaphor -- How do therapists respond? Implicit and explicit social relationships of therapy -- What is different with Social Contextual Analyses? -- The pivotal role of language for life and therapy -- Contextual models of 'mental health' behaviours : Behaviours shaped by restrictive bad life situations -- How changing context can change action, talking and thinking : Analysing collateral and legacy effects -- Summarizing the changes needed for 'therapy' after including social and societal contexts -- Reimagining 'treatments' in their social and societal contexts : What do we do instead?.