Collaborative Therapy : Relationships and Conversations That Make a Difference

by Anderson; Harlene

• ISBN13: 9780415953276
• ISBN10: 0415953278
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-15
• 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: HARLENE ANDERSON AND DIANE GEHART	xvii
PART 1 An Invitation to Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations That Make a Difference	1	(94)
Collaborative Therapy Then and Now	1	(62)
1 A Postmodern Umbrella: Language and Knowledge as Relational and Generative, and Inherently Transforming	7	(14)
HARLENE ANDERSON
2 Historical Influences	21	(12)
HARLENE ANDERSON
3 Dialogue: People Creating Meaning with Each Other and Finding Ways to Go On	33	(10)
HARLENE ANDERSON
4 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
5 The Art of "Withness": A New Bright Edge	63	(18)
LYNN HOFFMAN
6 Human Participating: Human "Being" Is the Step for Human "Becoming" in the Next Step	81	(18)
TOM ANDERSEN
PART 2 The Therapy Room	95	(102)
7 Listening Voices	99	(10)
PEGGY PENN
8 Hearing the Unheard: Advice to Professionals from Women Who Have Been Battered	109	(20)
SUSAN B. LEVIN
9 You Make the Path as You Walk: Working Collaboratively with People with Eating Disorders	129	(20)
ELENA FERNÁNDEZ, ALEJANDRA CORTÉS, AND MARGARITA TARRAGONA
10 Honoring Elders through Conversations about Their Lives	149	(18)
JENNIFER ANDREWS
11 Collaborating with Parents and Children in Private Practice: Shifting and Overlapping Conversations	167	(16)
MARSHA MCDONOUGH AND PATRICIA KOCH
12 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
13 Trialogues: A Means to Answerability and Dialogue in a Prison Setting	203	(18)
JUDIT WAGNER
14 Open Dialogue: An Approach to Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Psychosis in Northern Finland	221	(14)
KAUKO HAARAKANGAS, JAAKKO SEIKKULA, BIRGITTA ALAKARE, AND JUKKA AALTONEN
15 The Development of a Collaborative Learning and Therapy Community in an Educational Setting: From Alienation to Invitation	235	(16)
SYLVIA LONDON AND IRMA RODRIGUEZ-JAZCILEVICH
16 Collaborative Therapy and Supervision in a Psychiatric Hospital	251	(18)
SYLVIA LONDON AND MARGARITA TARRAGONA
17 Women at a Turning Point: A Transformational Feast	269	(22)
DEBBIE FEINSILVER, EILEEN MURPHY, AND HARLENE ANDERSON
18 Dialogues in a Psychiatric Service in Cuba	291	(22)
KLAUS G. DEISSLER
In Education, Supervision, and Research
19 Relational Practices in Education: Teaching as Conversation	313	(24)
SHEILA MCNAMEE
20 From the Theory to the Practice of Inquiring Collaboratively: An Exercise in and Clinical Example of an Interviewee-Guided Interview	337	(14)
SALLYANN ROTH
21 Curious George: Interview with a Supervisor	351	(16)
GLEN GARDNER AND ANTHONY NEUGEBAUER
22 A Collaborative Approach to Research and Inquiry	367	(24)
DIANE GEHART, MARGARITA TARRAGONA, AND SALIHA BAVA
Never-Ending Possibilities
23 Collaboration without End: The Case of the Positive Aging Newsletter	391	(12)
MARY GERGEN AND KENNETH J. GERGEN
24 Collaborating as a Lifestyle	403	(18)
SALLY ST. GEORGE AND DAN WULFF
Index	421