After Words

The Personal in Gender, Cultural and Psychotherapy

Stephen Frosh (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2002
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-96358-6 (ISBN)

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This study brings together important material on the debate about the relationship between social structures and subjectivity, thus providing a contribution to theory on the relationships between psychology, psychotherapy and social theory.

Throughout the human sciences, recent debates have centred on the relationship between social structures and subjectivity. These debates have been exemplary in the areas of gender, discourse and psychotherapy. Drawing on postmodernism and on psychoanalysis, scholars in these areas have attempted to theorise the social 'human subject' as a site for the expression of cultural and linguistic forces, whilst struggling to maintain the possibility of personal agency and political resistance.

In this book, which draws on some of Stephen Frosh's most innovative work, the question of how to understand the 'personal' in contemporary social life is explored through three themes: 'troubled masculinities', 'postmodernism and family therapy' and 'beyond discourse'. The studies which make up the book centre on the task of constructing theories which are genuinely 'psychosocial' in the sense of dealing with processes of social construction and with personal agency, in a context that celebrates the diversity of cultural and subjective forms. The book thus represents a substantial contribution to thinking around the intersections between psychology, psychoanalysis, systems therapy, postmodernism and social theory.

Stephen Frosh is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was previously Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic, London. He is the author of numerous academic papers and several books, the most recent (with Ann Phoenix and Rob Pattman) being Young Masculinities: Understanding Boys in Contemporary Society.

Stephen Frosh is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies, at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was previously Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic, London. He is the author of numerous academic papers and several books including For and Against Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference; Masculinity and Psychoanalysis, Identity Crisis; Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self, The Politics of Psychoanalysis and, most recently, Young Masculinities (with Ann Phoenix and Rob Pattman).

Introduction.- PART 1: TROUBLED MASCULINITIES.- Fathers' Ambivalence (Too).- Screaming under the Bridge.- Masculinity, Rationality and Psychotherapy.- Racism, Racialised Identities and the Psychoanalytic Order.- PART 2: POSTMODERNISM AND FAMILY THERAPY.- The Semantics of .- herapeutic Change.- Postmodernism versus Psychotherapy.- Postmodern Narratives.- Fundamentalism, Gender and Family Therapy.- PART 3: BEYOND DISCOURSE?.- What is Outside Discourse?.- Things that can't be said: Psychoanalysis and the Limits of Language.- Conclusion.- References.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.6.2002
Zusatzinfo	176 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-333-96358-X / 033396358X
ISBN-13	978-0-333-96358-6 / 9780333963586
Zustand	Neuware