Therapy beyond modernity : deconstructing and transcending profession-centred therapy / by Richard House.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

House, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Counseling--Methodology.

Counseling.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (461 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This radical and provocative book challenges the very foundations of therapy itself. In examining the hidden assumptions of therapy, the author poses the question 'Is therapy more concerned with preserving its own hegemony than with an honest authenticity of procedure and practice?.

Contents:

pt. 1. The profession-centred therapy form

pt. 2. "Consumer" experiences of profession-centred therapeutic practice

pt. 3. A new paradigm, post-professional era?

pt. 4. Whither "post-professional" therapy?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-429-92290-6

0-429-90867-9

0-429-48390-2

1-282-90100-1

9786612901003

1-84940-387-2

9780429483905

OCLC:

733458460