Overview
- Tackles the challenges of dealing with politics in the consulting room
- Presents a review of political abuse using psychiatry and clinical psychology around the world
- Shows how Latin American Community Psychology can contribute to develop a politically aware clinical practice
Part of the book series: Latin American Voices (LAVIPH)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The first part of the book presents the dilemmas psychotherapists have faced in different parts of the world, such as the former Soviet Union, USA, China, Spain, Hungary, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela when dealing with the intrusion of the political domain in clinical research and practice and the difficulties clinicians have had in dealing with these issues. The second part of the book presents an epistemological and theoretical framework from which these issues may be tackled effectively.
The book helps raise awareness of the risks of framing psychotherapy as apolitical as well as the benefits of thinking of our lives as contextualized in our political settings. It draws from several theoretical options that have been useful to challenge traditional clinical theory and include the political in our clinical comprehensions. In particular Latin American Community Psychology, that has developed tools to favor awareness of political issues, has been used to expand the psychotherapeutic conversation.
Politically Reflective Psychotherapy: Towards a Contextualized Approach will help clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and other social and mental health workers reflect on the challenges psychotherapy faces in a politically polarized society, showing how the political dimension can be incorporated into clinical practice.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politically Reflective Psychotherapy
Book Subtitle: Towards a Contextualized Approach
Authors: Manuel Llorens
Series Title: Latin American Voices
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57792-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57791-9Published: 28 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57794-0Published: 28 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57792-6Published: 27 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-5805
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5813
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 182
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Psychotherapy, Community and Environmental Psychology