Systemic Therapy as Transformative Practice
Book Details
- Publisher : Everything is Connected Press
- Published : April 2016
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 476
- Category :
Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy - Catalogue No : 39249
- ISBN 13 : 9780993072321
- ISBN 10 : 0993072321
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A family therapy textbook for our time. This substantial collection of 27 chapters from leading international family therapists showcases groundbreaking practice. It situates systemic practice in shifting local and global politics. The professions of psychotherapy, psychology face unprecedented economic and social instability worldwide. Writer address the creative intersections of systemic, social constructionist, narrative, dialogical, appreciative, constructivist and collaborative theories to offer systemic therapists and community-based practitioners hope, confidence, and ways of going forward ethically and creatively in the daily practice.
Reviews and Endorsements
This book is a landmark in the field of systemic theory and practice. It brings together contributions from leading European and North American practitioners and academics on a wide range of topics relevant to systemic practice, couple and family therapy. The book shows how practices based on systems theory and social constructionism can transform lives in a world recovering from an economic and social crisis. Scholarly, but also immensely practical and a ‘must-read’ for all family therapists.
Alan Carr, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University College Dublin
This timely book illuminates the crucial contribution of systemic ideas to creative therapy, organisational work, training and research and it is particularly welcome at a time when we face increasing inequalities and constraints on our freedoms. Systemic thinking has always had the capacity to be revolutionary and I am confident this book will inspire with its range of creative and emancipatory ideas and practices.
Charlotte Burck, PhD. Honorary Systemic Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic, London
The transformative qualities of systemic therapy to matters of human distress are abundantly displayed in this fresh exposition systemic therapy and its refined application. The humanity of each author shines through in their ability to combine rigorous thinking with imaginative co-creative practice.
Jim Wilson, Systemic Psychotherapist & former Chair, The Family Institute, Cardiff
In an increasing neo-liberal word where the emphasis is on individualistic models of practice and economic discourses of human support, this volume offers an impressive collection of European and North American systemic practitioners that critically, creatively and competently show how systemic ideas are transformative. An invaluable resource for students, scholars and practitioners!
Ottar Ness, Professor Mental Health, University Southeast Norway & Taos Associate
The ecological view, the Batesonian legacy to the field, aligned with the politics and philosophy of subjective experience is the common thread connecting the chapters. Grassroots activism as a sister movement gives energy and conviction to the practices described, where communities are honoured in their need, resilience and entitlement.
Dr Nollaig Byrne, Co-Founder of Family Therapy Training Programme, Dublin
Table of Contents
Foreword
Monica McGoldrick
Preface
Part I - Times of Change and Solidarity
1. Systemic Psychotherapy on the Move: Following Ariadne's thread in changing clinical contexts
Jane Dutton
2. The Inner and the Outer Sides of the Wind: Collaborative practice in the Solidarity Social Medical Centre of Thessaloniki, Greece
Fany (Fotini) Triantafillou, Dimitra Pouliopoulou, Elektra Bethymouti & Efrossini Moureli
3. A 'Fifth Wave' Systemic Practice Punctuating Liberation: Reflective Practice and Collective Social Action
Taiwo Afuape
4. Fourfold Vision and Cybernetic Unity: Therapist as Scientist, Theorist, Humanist and Artist
Hugh Palmer
5. The Event. On Experimenting With Complex Systems
Christopher J. Kinman
6. Looking for a Home: An Exploration of Jacques Derrida’s Notion of Hospitality in Family Therapy Practice With Refugees
Lucia De Haene & Peter Rober
7. A Systemic-Dialogical Perspective for Dealing With Cultural Differences in Psychotherapy
Andrea Davolo & Laura Fruggeri
8. Living Supervision in Practice: Structuring Accountability With Men Therapists Working Alongside Women and Gender-Variant Persons With Precarious Lives
Vikki Reynolds & Andrew Larcombe
9. Family Therapy in an Emerging Professional Life: One Story Among Stories
Therese Hegarty
10. Reflexive Processes in Higher Education: Systemic Dilemmas in Teaching Research Methodology by Means of ‘Polyphonic Dialogue'
Eleftheria Tseliou, Georgios Abakoumkin, Vicky Kokkini, Katerina Nanouri & Fani Valai
11. Systemic Practice as Systemic Inquiry as Transformative Research
Gail Simon
12. Framing the Symmetry
Nora Bateson
Part II - Transformative Conversations
13. Community Work and Psychotherapy as Two Sides of the Same Cooperative Practice
Umberta Telfener
14. The Aesthetics of Interruption: Points of Entry in Systemic Therapy
Ged Smith
15. Restoring Communities for Children and Separated Parents Caught in Demonising Fights
Justine Van Lawick
16. Creating Islands of Safety for Victims of Violence: Critical Systems Approach
Catherine Richardson/Kinewesquao
17. Systemic Practice in a Complex System: Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church
Marie Keenan
18. Hope and Risk: Systemic Practices for Supervision and Assessment in Child Protection
Ernst Salamon & Imelda McCarthy
19. ‘Double Jeopardy’ and ‘Professional Jeopardy’: Stories of Shared Identity
Gill Goodwillie
20. Paths to Transformative Conversations
Francesca Balestra & Laura Fruggeri
21. Systemic Conversations with Military Families: Research as Intervention
Ann-Margreth E. Olsson
22. Heresies from Practice: A Case of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Padraic Gibson & Don Boardman
23. Family Semantic Polarities as a Guide for the Therapeutic Process
Valeria Ugazio
24. Beyond Biology and the Linguistic Turn: Event, Singularity, Sense and the Work of Imagination
Marcelo Pakman
25. Systemic Psychosexual Therapy: A Guided Tour
Desa Markovic
26. When You Say, “It’s Not Sickness, It’s Love”, There Will Be a Powerful Change of Context
Mia Andersson
Notes on Contributors
About the Editor(s)
Imelda Colgan McCarthy, PhD. is a systemic/social constructionist therapist, supervisor and consultant. She has affiliations with School of Applied Social Science at University College Dublin where she was a director of the PhD program in families and systemic therapies and a senior university lecturer. She currently works in private practice while she teaches and consults nationally and internationally.
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Gail Simon, DProf, is a systemic therapist with The Pink Practice, UK, a founding editor of Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice and co-director of Everything is Connected Press CIC
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