Psychological Investigations: A Clinician's Guide to Social Therapy

by Holzman,Lois; Holzman,Lois

• ISBN13: 9780415944052
• ISBN10: 0415944058
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-06-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Psychological Investigationslets readers listen in on one of the most exciting developments in psychology today as it is unfolding. With the current trend in therapy reflecting a movement away from traditional psychology and towards more postmodern psychologies, social therapy, a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Fred Newman, emerges as a qualitatively new way of doing therapy. Social therapy blends philosophy, the arts, and political concerns into a group approach that focuses on improved social functioning. PsychologicalInvestigationsprovides insight into the revolutionary development of social therapy--an improvisational, investigatory, development-focused method of treatment. Featuring dialogues drawn from transcripts of teaching and supervisory sessions between Newman and therapists, the book presents a comprehensive guide to the core philosophical and political issues of social therapy and the social therapeutic group process. Instead of introspection andinsight--traditional means to self-realization--Newman and social therapy encourages activity, involvement and commitment to causes larger than the individual ego.

Author Biography

Lois Holzman, Ph.D., is Director of the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy in New York City Rafael Mendez, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at Bronx Community College where he practices a performatory, developmental approach to teaching psychology. He is a trained social therapist and on the faculty of the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Harlene Anderson
Preface	xiii
Lois Holzman and Rafael Mendez
PART ONE
Setting the Stage	1	(12)
Rafael Mendez
Creating the Context: An Introduction	13	(36)
Lois Holzman
A Discovery of Motive	13	(4)
A Philosopher's Practice	17	(8)
A Storyteller's Practice	25	(11)
A Developmentalist's Practice	36	(6)
The Dialectics of Completion	42	(5)
References	47	(2)
PART TWO
The Dialogues	49	(4)
Fred Newman and Others
Prelude	53	(4)
Dialogue 1. Therapy Is Like Writing a Song
Chapter 1. The Core Issues of Social Therapeutic Practice	57	(48)
A. Developmental Activity	57	(12)
Dialogue 2. Short-Term Therapy and Long-Term Growth
Dialogue 3. The Improvisational Activity of Developing
Dialogue 4. The Politics of Being and Becoming
Dialogue 5. What Develops? (Overcoming Individualism)
Dialogue 6. Radical Acceptance and Emotional Growth
Dialogue 7. Choosing to Grow
B. Enhancing Sociality/Challenging Individualism	69	(5)
Dialogue 8. Creating Zones of Proximal Development
Dialogue 9. Engaging Alienation
Dialogue 10. Relational Awareness
C. Mundane Creativity	74	(8)
Dialogue 11. Creativity as a Collective Impulse
Dialogue 12. The Limitations of Elitism
Dialogue 13. Creating Choices
Dialogue 14. Creating Meaning
D. Performance	82	(7)
Dialogue 15. Performance inland Therapy
Dialogue 16. Performance and Behavior
Dialogue 17. Improvisational Learning
E. What's Wrong With Truth Talk?	89	(4)
Dialogue 18. Description as Truth Telling
Dialogue 19. Moving Forward Without Knowing
Dialogue 20. Don't Share Knowledge
F Problems	93	(5)
Dialogue 21. The Language of Problems
Dialogue 22. Making the Problem Vanish
Dialogue 23. There Are No Answers
G. Identities and Identity	98	(7)
Dialogue 24. The Oppression of Identity
Dialogue 25. Particularity, Not Identity
Dialogue 26. Culture and Assumptions
Dialogue 27. The Paradoxicality of the Other
Chapter 2. The Social Therapeutic Group Process	105	(16)
Dialogue 28. Beginning a New Social Therapy Group
Dialogue 29. Talking to the Group
Dialogue 30. Seeing the Group
Dialogue 31. Freedom and Participation
Dialogue 32. Creating a Shared Experience
Dialogue 33. Bringing Someone Into Group
Dialogue 34. Listening
Dialogue 35. Contributing
Dialogue 36. Group Understanding
Dialogue 37. Abandoning the Group
Chapter 3. Developing the Social Therapeutic Relationship	121	(22)
Dialogue 38. Responding to Individuals While Building the Group
Dialogue 39. Relating to Stories
Dialogue 40. Creating, Not Invoking, New Ways of Seeing
Dialogue 41. Radically Improvising
Dialogue 42. Learning to Be Intimate
Dialogue 43. Challenging Assumptions
Dialogue 44. Being Demanding
Dialogue 45. Sharing "I Don't Understand"
Dialogue 46. Being Adored
Dialogue 47. Being Intuitive
Dialogue 48. Don't Be a Helper
Chapter 4. Therapeutic Challenges: People and Situations	143	(18)
Dialogue 49. Women, Men, and Sexism
Dialogue 50. Men Who Act Violent
Dialogue 51. The Fragile Client
Dialogue 52. The Silent Client
Dialogue 53. The Dramatic Client
Dialogue 54. Helping People in Crisis
Chapter 5. Social Therapy Integrated	161	(18)
A. Social Therapy and Spirituality	161	(3)
Dialogue 55. Humanizing Our Culture
Dialogue 56. The Activity of Giving
B. Social Therapy and Body Work	164	(8)
Dialogue 57. The Language of Massage
Dialogue 58. Minds, Bodies, and Subjectivity
C. Social Therapy and Medicine	172	(4)
Dialogue 59. Creating Health
Dialogue 60. Inside and Outside the Institution of Medicine
D. Social Therapy and Self Help	176	(3)
Dialogue 61. The Relational in Self Help
Chapter 6. Social Therapy and Philosophy (and Politics)	179
Dialogue 62. Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts
Dialogue 63. Dualism and Connectionism
Dialogue 64. Dialectics and Contradictions
Dialogue 65. Particulars and Totalities
Dialogue 66. Undecidability and Emotions
Dialogue 67. Alienation and Humiliation
Dialogue 68. On Not Making Distinctions
Dialogue 69. Beyond Postmodernism?
Dialogue 70: It's All Activity
Epilogue: Therapists' Comments	195	(8)
Appendix: Readings in Social Therapy and the Social Therapeutic Method	203
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Préface	viii
Preface	ix
Remerciements	x
Acknowledgements	xi
INTRODUCTION
Perspectives sur la distinction canadienne au tournant du Xxisiècle	2	(1)
Perspectives on the Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century	3	(10)
Chad Gaffield
LOCUS IN QUO
The Inclusive Shape of Complexity
John Ralston Saul	13	(16)
Passer à l'avenir. Actualiser la canadianité
Jocelyn Létourneau	29	(18)
Survival Then and Now
Margaret Atwood	47	(12)
INDIVIDUALS,COLLECTIVITIES, AND THE STATE / INDIVIDUS COLLECTIVITÉS ET ÉTAT
Toward a Baroque Governance in Twenty-first Century Canada
Gilles Paquet	59	(30)
Evolving State - Civil Society Relationships: The Beginning of a New Era?
Susan D. Phillips	89	(30)
Malentendus multiculturels : France, États-Unis, Canada
Denis Lacorne	119	(16)
Aboriginal Peoples in the Twenty-first Century: A Plea for Realism
Alan C.Cairns	135	(32)
THE TEXTURE OF CANADIAN SOCIETY / LE CARACTÈRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE
Canadian Business: "No, I'm from Canada"
W. Michael Wilson	167	(6)
"I am Canadian!:" From Beer Commercials to Medicare: In Search of Identity
Monique Begin	173	(10)
The Multicultural Wheel: The Texture of Canadian Society and Literature in the Twenty-first Century
Maya Dutt	183	(16)
CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND THE MARKET / CULTURE, IDENTITÉ ET MARCHÉ
Packaging Canada/Packaging Places: Tourism, Culture, and Identity in the Twenty-first Century
C. Michael Hall	199	(16)
Canadians Distinctiveness and Cultural Policy As We Enter the Twenty-first Century
Shirley L. Thomson	215	(10)
Pour une convention multilatérale sur la culture
Jean-Louis Roy	225	(6)
Identity and Otherness in Canadian Foreign Policy
Maria Teresa	231	(22)
THE PLACE OF CANADA IN THE WORLD OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY / LE RÔLE DU CANADA SUR LA SCÈNE INTERNATIONALE AU VINGT ET UNIÈME SIÈCLE
The Canadian Military in the Security Environment of the Twenty-first Centur
Donna Winslow	253	(14)
The Role of Canada in the International Context of the Twenty-first Century
Huguette Labelle	267	(6)
A Communications, Technology, and Societal Memory: A Distinct Canadian Archival Voice in the Global Village
Terry Cook	273	(18)
Canada One Hundred Years from Now: A Federation of Nations?
Jean Laponce	291	(22)
Metaphors and Maps: Imagining Canada into the Twenty-first Century
Loma Irvine	313	(11)
Collaborateurs	324	(1)
Contributors	325