Table of Contents

Deconstruction and Psychotherapy - Ian Parker
PART ONE: SOURCES AND CONTEXTS FOR THE DECONSTRUCTIVE TURN
Toward a Non-Regulative Praxis - John Kaye
Derrida and the Deconstruction of Power as Context and Topic in Therapy - Glenn Larner
Clementis′s Hat - Vincent Fish
Foucault and the Politics of Psychotherapy
Between the `No Longer′ and the `Not Yet′ - Roger Lowe
Postmodernism as a Context for Critical Therapeutic Work
Feminism, Politics and Power in Therapeutic Discourse - Nollaig O′Reilly Byrne and Imelda Colgan McCarthy
Fragments from the Fifth Province
PART TWO: DECONSTRUCTION IN PRAXIS
Narrative, Foucault and Feminism - Vanessa Swan
Implications for Therapeutic Practice
A Discursive Approach to Therapy with Men - Ian Law
Therapy and Faith - Wendy Drewery with Wally McKenzie
Inscription, Description and Deciphering Chronic Identities - Stephen Madigan
PART THREE: DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC DISCOURSE
The Therapist as Client as Expert - John Morss and Maria Nichterlein
Externalizing Narrative Therapy
Can (and Should) We Know How, Where and When Psychotherapy Takes Place? - Eero Riikonen and Sara Vataja

About the Author

Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Bolton Institute. He is author of Psychoanalytic Culture (SAGE, 1997) and co-author of Deconstructing Psychopathology (SAGE, 1995). CONTRIBUTORS Steven D Brown Keele University Vivien Burr University of Huddersfield Andrew Collier University of Southampton Bronwyn Davies James Cook University Don Foster University of Cape Town Kenneth J Gergen Swarthmore College Rom Harre Oxford University Maritza Montero Universidad Central de Venezuela Jonathan Potter Loughborough University Joan Pujol University of Huddersfield Carla Willig Middlesex University

Reviews

`The book is a welcome addition to literature in the field, however, and signals the need for more vigorous engagement and debate, informed by postmodern discourse, in South Africa′ - PINS `I enjoyed this book, and think that it should find a grateful and attentive readership in the practical field as well as being a central text in academic settings. It will also be well received by those, like myself, for whom the interest is more in deconstructing than psychotherapy′ -Dialogues