What is Normal? (eBook)

Psychotherapists Explore the Question

Roz Carroll, Jane Ryan (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
192 Seiten
Confer Books (Verlag)
978-1-913494-21-6 (ISBN)

Infos

"This compilation of insightful, thoughtful, and highly original explorations gently subverts the concepts of normal as conventional and of what we often call 'disease' as abnormal. Written with sensitivity and compassion, it is a challenging and much needed contribution to the psychotherapeutic literature."
Gabor Maté, M.D., author of When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

Many people strive to be normal, and deviation from accepted norms can feel like failure. But why do we want to be normal? And what does that mean? Ordinary? Sane? Similar? When probed, the notion of normality starts to look fragile. It is not clear who decides what being normal means or who is entitled to say.

Nonetheless, concerns about conforming and being accepted are deeply pervasive. With an extraordinary diversity of perspectives, the authors featured in this collection – all psychotherapists – use biographical accounts, political analyses and clinical vignettes to challenge the concept of normality. Through these stories and discussions, it emerges that our very uniqueness, oddness and differences as individuals are what make us fully human.

At a time of rapid social change, the freedom to be oneself – whatever form that takes – is at the core of contemporary debate, and this volume makes a vital contribution to that project.

Inhalt

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1. The new normal Tania Glyde
2. Therapy and hope: are they really normal? Andrew Samuels
3. No escape from 'normal' Doris Brothers
4. The normal couple therapist Jane Haberlin
5. Your normal, my normal. Disruptions, accommodations and respect between therapist and patient Susie Orbach
6. Black paranormal: a playlist Foluke Taylor
7. Normal sex Meg-John Barker
8. Minding the gap: a couple psychotherapist's perspective Christopher Clulow
9. Born to love, driven to destroy Felicity de Zulueta
10. The myth of normality Chris Oakley
11. The shifting landscape of sexual normality Dany Nobus
12. Norms and normality: a socio-psychoanalytic approach Stephen Seligman
13. Why would I want to be normal? Lennox K. Thomas
14. The problem of words. It's why we are all mad! Phil Mollon
15. Negotiating the normal Ann Shearer
16. Flourishing: the 'normal' therapist versus the 'healthy' therapist Brett Kahr
17. Cultural schizophrenia and internalised racism are not normal Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga
18. In the therapy room: are all patients normal? Valerie Sinason
19. When simply being human is abnormal Stephen Setterberg
20. Future flat-packed or future fluid? Why normal is the problem Roz Carroll
REFERENCES
INDEX

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.10.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Andrew Samuels • Ann Shearer • Blackness • black women • Brett Kahr • Chris Oakley • Christopher Clulow • Couple therapy • Dany Nobus • Doris Brothers • Eurocentric perspective • false selves • Felicity de Zulueta • Foluke Taylor • Freud • Homosexuality • Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga • Jane Haberlin • jung • Lacan • Lennox Thomas • Meg-John Barker • Mental Health • Mixed Marriages • Norm • Normality • Phil Mollon • Post Tramatic Stress Disorder • Power Threat Meaning Framework • pscychoanalysis • Sex • Sigmund Freud • Stephen Seligman • Stephen Setterberg • Susie Orbach • Tania Glyde • Trauma • Valerie Sinason • Wake Work • Weird
• ISBN-10: 1-913494-21-7 / 1913494217
• ISBN-13: 978-1-913494-21-6 / 9781913494216