1st Edition

Psychological Investigations A Clinician's Guide to Social Therapy

Edited By Lois Holzman, Rafael Mendez Copyright 2003
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

"Psychological Investigations" lets readers listen in on one of the most exciting developments in psychology today as it is unfolding. With the current trend in therapy reflecting a movement away from traditional psychology and towards more postmodern psychologies, social therapy, a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Fred Newman, emerges as a qualitatively new way of doing therapy. Social... Read more
Foreword, By Harlene Anderson
Preface, By Lois Holzman and Rafael Mendez

PART ONE
SETTING THE STAGE, By Rafael Mendez
CREATING THE CONTEXT: AN INTRODUCTION, By Lois Holzman
PART TWO
THE DIALOGUES, By Fred Newman and Others
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Core Issues of Social Therapeutic Practice
A. Developmental Activity
B. Enhancing Sociality/Challenging Individualism
C. Mundane Creativity
D. Performance
E. What's Wrong With Truth Talk?
F. Problems
G. Identities and Identity
Chapter 2. The Social Therapeutic Group Process
Chapter 3. Developing the Social Therapeutic Relationship
Chapter 4. Therapeutic Challenges: People and Situations
Chapter 5. Social Therapy Integrated
A. Social Therapy and Spirituality
B. Social Therapy and Body Work
C. Social Therapy and Medicine
D. Social Therapy and Self Help
Chapter 6. Social Therapy and Philosophy (and Politics)
EPILOGUE: THERAPISTS' COMMENTS
Appendix: Readings in Social Therapy and the Social Therapeutic Method

Biography

Lois Holzman, Rafael Mendez