Collaborative Therapy: Relationships And Conversations That Make a Difference

by Anderson; Harlene

• ISBN13: 9780415953269
• ISBN10: 041595326X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

As the number of postmodern theoretical contributions to the literature of psychology has grown, so have postmodernism's appeals and recognitions of its relevance. Many of these writings suggest practical applications, yet there is a gap in the literature between theoretical explications and in-depth accounts of the many forms of everyday practice that flow from it. The proposed work will provide a means to bridge this gap. Invitations will be a practice and guide book that brings together a collection of applications, innovations, and expansions of postmodern collaborative therapy with an emphasis on clinical practice. A wide variety of professionals from diverse disciplines, contexts, and cultures will detail what they actually do in their therapy practices. The book will also demonstrate the extension and usefulness of a postmodern collaborative approach to the domains of education, research, and organizations. The text is divided into three sections. Each section provides descriptions ofthe application to a specific population, problem, or context. Section one provides the historical and theoretical background of collaborative therapy. Section two focuses on a variety of psychotherapeutic specialties including domestic violence, the elderly, chronic illness, eating disorders, and children. Section three offers examples of how postmodern perspective can be put into action

Table of Contents

About the Editors	vii
Contributors	ix
Preface	xvii
Harlene Anderson
Diane Gehart
PART 1 An Invitation to Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations That Make a Difference	1	(94)
Collaborative Therapy Then and Now
A Postmodern Umbrella: Language and Knowledge as Relational and Generative, and Inherently Transforming	7	(14)
Harlene Anderson
Historical Influences	21	(12)
Harlene Anderson
Dialogue: People Creating Meaning with Each Other and Finding Ways to Go On	33	(10)
Harlene Anderson
The Heart and Spirit of Collaborative Therapy: The Philosophical Stance---``A Way of Being'' in Relationship and Conversation	43	(20)
Harlene Anderson
Other Voices: Netting and Expressing
The Art of ``Withness'': A New Bright Edge	63	(18)
Lynn Hoffman
Human Participating: Human ``Being'' Is the Step for Human ``Becoming'' in the Next Step	81	(14)
Tom Andersen
PART 2 The Therapy Room	95	(102)
Listening Voices	99	(10)
Peggy Penn
Hearing the Unheard: Advice to Professionals from Women Who Have Been Battered	109	(20)
Susan B. Levin
You Make the Path as You Walk: Working Collaboratively with People with Eating Disorders	129	(20)
Elena Fernandez
Alejandra Cortes
Margarita Tarragona
Honoring Elders through Conversations about Their Lives	149	(18)
Jennifer Andrews
Collaborating with Parents and Children in Private Practice: Shifting and Overlapping Conversations	167	(16)
Marsha Mcdonough
Patricia Koch
Creating Space for Children's Voices: A Collaborative and Playful Approach to Working with Children and Families	183	(14)
Diane Gehart
PART 3 Beyond the Therapy Room	197	(224)
In Social and Institutional Settings
Trialogues: A Means to Answerability and Dialogue in a Prison Setting	203	(18)
Judit Wagner
Open Dialogue: An Approach to Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Psychosis in Northern Finland	221	(14)
Kauko Haarakangas
Jaakko Seikkula
Birgitta Alakare
Jukka Aaltonen
The Development of a Collaborative Learning and Therapy Community in an Educational Setting: From Alienation to Invitation	235	(16)
Sylvia London
Irma Rodriguez-Jazcilevich
Collaborative Therapy and Supervision in a Psychiatric Hospital	251	(18)
Sylvia London
Margarita Tarragona
Women at a Turning Point: A Transformational Feast	269	(22)
Debbie Feinsilver
Eileen Murphy
Harlene Anderson
Dialogues in a Psychiatric Service in Cuba	291	(22)
Klaus G. Deissler
In Education, Supervision, and Research
Relational Practices in Education: Teaching as Conversation	313	(24)
Sheila Mcnamee
From the Theory to the Practice of Inquiring Collaboratively: An Exercise in and Clinical Example of an Interviewee-Guided Interview	337	(14)
Sallyann Roth
Curious George: Interview with a Supervisor	351	(16)
Glen Gardner
Anthony Neugebauer
A Collaborative Approach to Research and Inquiry	367	(24)
Diane Gehart
Margarita Tarragona
Saliha Bava
Never-Ending Possibilities
Collaboration without End: The Case of the Positive Aging Newsletter	391	(12)
Mary Gergen
Kenneth J. Gergen
Collaborating as a Lifestyle	403	(18)
Sally St. George
Dan Wulff
Index	421