Deconstructing Psychotherapy

Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Bolton Institute. He is author of Psychoanalytic Culture (SAGE, 1997) and co-author of Deconstructing Psychopathology (SAGE, 1995). CONTRIBUTORS Steven D Brown Keele University Vivien Burr University of Huddersfield Andrew Collier University of Southampton Bronwyn Davies James Cook University Don Foster University of Cape Town Kenneth J Gergen Swarthmore College Rom Harre Oxford University Maritza Montero Universidad Central de Venezuela Jonathan Potter Loughborough University Joan Pujol University of Huddersfield Carla Willig Middlesex University

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 - Vincent Fish Foucault and the Politics of Psychotherapy Between the `No Longer' and the `Not Yet' - Roger Lowe Postmodernism as a Context for Critical Therapeutic Work Feminism, Politics and Power in Therapeutic Discourse - Nollaig O'Reilly Byrne and Imelda Colgan McCarthy Fragments from the Fifth Province PART TWO: DECONSTRUCTION IN PRAXIS Narrative, Foucault and Feminism - Vanessa Swan Implications for Therapeutic Practice 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 - John Morss and Maria Nichterlein Externalizing Narrative Therapy Can (and Should) We Know How, Where and When Psychotherapy Takes Place? - Eero Riikonen and Sara Vataja

`The book is a welcome addition to literature in the field, however, and signals the need for more vigorous engagement and debate, informed by postmodern discourse, in South Africa' - PINS `I enjoyed this book, and think that it should find a grateful and attentive readership in the practical field as well as being a central text in academic settings. It will also be well received by those, like myself, for whom the interest is more in deconstructing than psychotherapy' -Dialogues