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Expanding the Limits of Individual and Family Therapies: A Critical Realist Approach

Author(s) : David Pocock

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David Pocock has always been one of the most original thinkers in the field of family therapy. It may be hard to say if David Pocock is psychoanalytic or systemic. As he writes in the introduction, he is both and more. Deeply grounded in a critical realist philosophy, Pocock considers therapeutic work with aggression, self-harm, and suicidality. He reflects on emotions and the therapeutic alliance. He considers triangles within a psychoanalytic frame, as well as in a systemic frame. And so on. I feel strangely at home in Pocock’s rich world of ideas. This is a book that can refine your thinking and inspire your practice. I warmly recommend it.
Peter Rober, Professor in Clinical Psychology at the Institute for Family and Sexuality Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven, Belgium, and Director of the Centre of Marital and Family Therapy at UPC KU Leuven

David Pocock has created a masterful and comprehensive book that is a must-read for psychoanalysts, humanistic psychotherapists and systemic therapists interested in expanding their collection of ideas and experiences in ways that might widen possibilities and enhance their thinking and their work. Using the frame of a critical realist philosophy, he artfully offers multiple theories and practices from which to draw in any given circumstance. His language is easily accessible, as he travels back and forward in time, describing the evolution of theory and practice while artfully weaving together rich personal as well as clinical examples to illustrate his points. Pocock’s clarity, insight, scholarship, and the wisdom he has garnered over a long, joyful, and fulfilling career will be invaluable for psychoanalytic, humanistic, and systemic clinicians and, indeed, for all readers.
Susan Lord, Ph.D., LICSW Clinical Associate Professor Emerita at the University of New Hampshire, Taos Institute Associate, private practice in York, Maine, USA