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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827680203321

Autore

House Richard

Titolo

Therapy beyond modernity : deconstructing and transcending profession-centred therapy / / by Richard House

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2003

ISBN

0-429-92290-6

0-429-90867-9

0-429-48390-2

1-282-90100-1

9786612901003

1-84940-387-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (461 p.)

Disciplina

150

616.8914

Soggetti

Psychotherapy

Counseling - Methodology

Social psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The profession-centred therapy form -- pt. 2. "Consumer" experiences of profession-centred therapeutic practice -- pt. 3. A new paradigm, post-professional era? -- pt. 4. Whither "post-professional" therapy?

Sommario/riassunto

This radical and provocative book challenges the very foundations of therapy itself. In examining the hidden assumptions of therapy, the author poses the question 'Is therapy more concerned with preserving its own hegemony than with an honest authenticity of procedure and practice?.