ABSTRACT
This book offers reflections on how liberation might be experienced by clients as a result of the therapeutic relationship. It explores how power and resistance might be most effectively and ethically understood and utilised in clinical practice with survivors of trauma.
Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma draws together narrative therapy, Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) and liberation psychology approaches. It critically reviews each approach and demonstrates what each contributes to the other as well as how to draw them together in a coherent way. The book presents:
- an original take on CMM through the lenses of power and resistance
- a new way of thinking about resistance in life and therapy, using the metaphor of creativity
- numerous case examples to support strong theory-practice links.
Through the exploration of power, resistance and liberation in therapy, this book presents innovative ways of conceptualising these issues. As such it will be of interest to anyone in the mental health fields of therapy, counselling, social work or critical psychology, regardless of their preferred model. It will also appeal to those interested in a socio-political contextual analysis of complex human experience.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |3 pages
Introducing the introduction
chapter |13 pages
Introduction
part I|38 pages
Therapy, power, resistance and trauma
chapter Chapter 1|4 pages
Therapy and social context
chapter Chapter 2|13 pages
Power
chapter Chapter 3|6 pages
Resistance
chapter Chapter 4|13 pages
Understanding trauma with respect to power, resistance and liberation
part II|52 pages
Liberation and therapy: Theory
chapter Chapter 5|11 pages
Liberation psychology: An overview
chapter Chapter 6|10 pages
Liberation psychology: Critical reflection
chapter Chapter 7|7 pages
Narrative approaches to liberation
chapter Chapter 8|11 pages
Communication/Social context approaches to liberation
chapter Chapter 9|11 pages
Drawing the theory together
part III|86 pages
Liberation and therapy: Practice
chapter Chapter 10|22 pages
Ways of working with power, resistance and liberation
chapter Chapter 11|14 pages
The recovery of historical memory
chapter Chapter 12|22 pages
De-ideologising everyday experience
chapter Chapter 13|19 pages
Utilising the people's virtues
chapter Chapter 14|7 pages
Drawing the practices together
part IV|12 pages
Final reflections on theory and practice