Research Catalog

Title

Psychotherapy in everyday life / Ole Dreier.

Author

Dreier, Ole.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Description

xiv, 333 pages

Summary

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction 1. Re-Searching Psychotherapy as a Social Practice. 1.1. The received view in research on psychotherapy. 1.2. Process studies in sessions. 1.3. Professional centeredness and de-subjectification of clients and therapists. 1.4. Client perspectives in sessions. 1.5. Clients as agents, consumers and users. 1.6. How does therapy work across places? 1.7. Assuming identical client functioning in sessions and elsewhere. 1.8. Looking beyond sessions. 1.9. Taking professional charge of the everyday. 1.10. Re-searching changing therapeutic and everyday practices. 2. Theorizing Persons in Structures of Social Practice. 2.1. Theorizing Social Practice. Conceptualizing structures of social practice. Social contexts and the structure of social practice. Arrangements of contextual practices and of the links between them. The local presence of cross-cutting issues. 2.2. Persons as situated participants in social practice. Personal locations and perspectives. Persons as participants. Personal participation in context. Personal positions and concerns in context. Personal abilities in context. Personal reasons and understandings in context. Personal change and conflicts in context. 2.3. Personal Trajectories in a Complex Social Practice. Complexity and diversity in personal social practice. Distributing, linking, and balancing participations and stakes in social \practices. Gathering, adopting, and pursuing personal stances. The mediation and reach of personal activities across contexts. 3. A Study -- Its Design and Conduct. The unit of outpatient child psychiatry and the project. The interviews. Relations between the interviews and the ongoing therapy. Studying the everyday lives of persons attending therapy. The chosen case and its therapy. 4. Clients' Ordinary Lives plus Sessions. 4.1. Getting outside help. 4.2. Having problems. 4.3. Orientation towards therapy. 4.4. What can therapists do? 4.5. Participation in sessions. 4.6. Diverse perspectives, modes of participation and stakes in sessions. 4.7. Diverse reinterpretations of sessions elsewhere. 4.8. Struggles over the uses of sessions. 5. Therapy in Clients' Social Practice across Places. 5.1. Diverse modes of participation in diverse contexts. 5.2. Particular features of sessions work in conflictual practices. 5.3. Ways to include sessions at home. 5.4. Pursuing concerns and gathering stances across times and places. 5.5. Experience, reflection and talk across contexts. 6. Changes in Clients' Practice across Places. 6.1. Understanding change. 6.2. Changing from different angles. 6.3. Continuing pursuits and other conflicts. 6.4. When have we had enough? 6.5. Changing understandings of change. Sameness and difference, routines and variations in changes. Learning in a changing social practice. Self-confidence and pulling myself together in social practice. Stability and hanging togetherness in a changing practice. Understanding open-ended changes. 7. Changing Problems across Places. 7.1. Focus and frame. 7.2. The course of changing problems. Relating to Angie's symptoms and problems. Being cross at home "Now I must pull myself together." Problems in other places. Taking care of others and your own life. 7.3. Problems subside, vary, and flare up. "We have to find each other again." "She has done everything to ruin our trust." Making joint arrangements for different lives. 7.4. One problem after another. "We don't turn the same things into problems." 7.5. Reconsidering changing problems. Illness problems in everyday life. Changing open-ended problems. Changing understandings of problems. 8. The Conduct of Everyday Life and the Life Trajectory. 8.1. The conduct of everyday life. 8.2. The life trajectory. 9. The Children's Changing Conducts of Everyday Life and Life Trajectories. 9.1. Angie. Conducting a life in dependency. Moving confidently around in separate worlds. An unstable, varying and changing conduct of life and self-understanding. Being away and at home. Becoming different and changing demands on others' recognition. Reaching towards what? 9.2. Donna. Being away most of the time. Living in separate worlds. Taking care of myself in my room. Struggling with the way I conduct myself. Switches as changes? Resentment, self-confidence, self-respect and change. Being told, deciding for myself or being heard. 10. The Parents' Changing Conducts of Everyday Life and Life Trajectories. 10.1. Mary. Being strongly committed to lead an ordinary life. "The mother takes care of it all." "But I think it's unfair!" "I'm going to lead a different life." "We created it ourselves." Changing her practice of care. Rising aspirations, dissatisfactions and disappointments. 10.2. Paul. Changing from the periphery. Being targeted in disagreements over changes. Being pushed and having doubts about changing. Trust and clarification of stances. Being good enough? Becoming more supportive yet remaining less central. Threatening to leave and recognizing differences. Needing time to ponder and being less optimistic. Striking a new balance and beginning to look ahead. Pursuing continuity and change. 11. The Changing Conduct of Everyday Family Life and Family Trajectory. 11.1. The changing conduct of everyday family life. Making open family arrangements. Arranging a family life for family matters. Considering other parts of members' lives. Taking care of each other at home. Being a "we" with four different persons. Intimate troubles. 11.2. The changing family trajectory. Changing understandings and pursuits of a family trajectory. Changing arrangements of family care. Learning and getting it right or wrong. Changing commitments and understandings with each other. Changing family relationships. Intricacies of a changing family trajectory. Understanding transformations. 12. Research in Social Practice. 12.1 The social practice of research. 12.2 Conceptual dimensions and outcomes of the project. 12.3 Empirical dimensions and outcomes of the project. 12.4 Uses of research in social practice. References.

Series Statement

Learning in doing

Uniform Title

Learning in doing

Subject

• Psychotherapy
• Patient compliance
• Social adjustment
• Psychotherapy
• Family Relations
• Patient Compliance
• Patients > psychology
• Social Adjustment
• Patient Acceptance of Health Care
• Social adjustment
• Patient compliance

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-325) and indexes.

Contents

Re-searching psychotherapy as a social practice -- Theorizing persons in structures of social practice -- A study--its design and conduct -- Clients' ordinary lives plus sessions -- Therapy in clients' social practice across places -- Changes in clients' practice across places -- Changing problems across places -- The conduct of everyday life and the life -- The children's changing conducts of everyday life -- The parents' changing conducts of everyday life and life trajectories -- The changing conduct of everyday family life and family trajectory -- Research in social practice.

ISBN

• 9780521880176
• 0521880173
• 9780521706131
• 0521706130
• 9780511619519 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2007013206

OCLC

• ocn122424398
• 122424398
• SCSB-9776424

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library