A grammar of power in psychotherapy : exploring the dynamics of privilege / Malin Fors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fors, Malin (Clinical psychologist), author.

Contributor:

American Psychological Association, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--methods.

Power, Psychological.

Psychotherapeutic Processes.

Professional-Patient Relations.

Confidentiality.

Culturally Competent Care.

Psychotherapy.

Psychoanalysis.

Medical Subjects:

Psychotherapy--methods.

Power, Psychological.

Psychotherapeutic Processes.

Professional-Patient Relations.

Confidentiality.

Culturally Competent Care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 197 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"This book sheds light on how underlying patterns of societal power relations affect the patient-therapist dyad in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. It is an effort to understand, and ideally to reduce, clinical blindness in psychotherapy. The book systematically addresses unique therapeutic challenges in four different core therapeutic dyads of relative privilege: when therapist and patient share the same social privilege, when privilege favors the therapist, when privilege favors the patient, and when therapist and patient have a similar level of nonprivilege. It explores relevant clinical patterns and dynamics in each of the four core fields of relative privilege and will be helpful in the teaching of issues of diversity, cultural competency, social justice, and awareness of privilege. The book is divided into eight chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in the book. Chapter two introduces readers to the complexities and inconsistencies of privilege and subordination, endeavoring to invite curiosity and self-reflection about one's own privileges and complexities. Each of the subsequent chapters explores, using vignettes, one square from the matrix: Chapter three describes similarity of privilege; Chapters four and five discusses privilege favoring the therapist and privilege favoring the patient; Chapter six explores the situation of similarity of nonprivilege. Chapter seven recounts a longer case that illustrates the complexity of fighting sexism and finding repair in political interpretation. Chapter eight presents a summary and integration of the ideas that have previously arisen with respect to the different relative power situations."--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Prologue

Our blind spots in therapy

Dynamics of power and privilege

Similarity of privilege

Privilege favoring the therapist

Privilege favoring the patient : confused subordination in therapy

Similarity of nonprivilege

Distortions in the matrix of relative privilege

Afterword : the unthought known

Appendix: Suggested themes for further reflection

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2018.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781433829154

1433829150

Access Restriction:

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