Deadly Therapy

Lessons in Liveliness from Theater and Performance Theory

Michael Karson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2008
Jason Aronson Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7657-0445-0 (ISBN)

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Therapists have a lot to learn from theater professionals about helping people narrate important conflicts, understand uplifting ideas, and engage in illuminating interactions. Analysis of theater has also produced Goffman's dramaturgical vision of reality, in which people are beset with performance problems including defining situations, forming teams, casting roles, and managing discrediting information. A dramaturgical understanding of psychotherapy is articulated in this book, with a focus on living up to situational norms intrinsic to therapy and managing performance failures associated with the roles of therapist and patient. Norms derive from rules and categories—in society and in therapy—that help people know how to behave, but which also produce self-serving hegemonies of privilege and power, even in therapy.

Performance theory—encompassing audience engagement, dramaturgy, gender studies, power and privilege dynamics, critical thinking, and multiculturalism—is used to investigate the "party lines" that get established in therapy and supervision, and to suggest ways to temper the deadening effects of rules and categories.

Michael Karson, Ph.D., J.D., is clinical associate professor at the University of Denver's Graduate School of Professional Psychology. Prior to that he practiced psychotherapy and consulted in the child welfare system for 25 years in Massachusetts. He is the author of Using Early Memories in Psychotherapy: Roadmaps to Presenting Problems and Treatment Impasses, Patterns of Child Abuse: How Dysfunctional Transactions are Replicated in Individuals, Families and the Child Welfare System and the senior author of 16PF Interpretation in Clinical Practice: A Guide to the Fifth Edition.

Chapter 1 Lessons from Deadly Theater
Chapter 2 Lessons from Performance Theory
Chapter 3 What Am I Doing to Irma?
Chapter 4 Status Games
Chapter 5 Gender Is Something We Do, Not Something We Are
Chapter 6 Deadly Multiculturalism
Chapter 7 Therapeutic Privilege
Chapter 8 Is Science Just Another Party Line?
Chapter 9 Critical Thinking About Critical Thinking
Chapter 10 Applying Theory to the Therapy (and Not Just to the Patient’s Life)
Chapter 11 Deadly Supervision
Chapter 12 Fourteen Things We Can Do to Make Our Therapies Livelier
Chapter 13 References
Chapter 14 Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.7.2008
Verlagsort	Northvale NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Gewicht	528 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	0-7657-0445-5 / 0765704455
ISBN-13	978-0-7657-0445-0 / 9780765704450
Zustand	Neuware