Psychotherapy, Society, and Politics From Theory to Practice /

• Main Author: Avissar, Nissim (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Psychoanalysis.; Counseling.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Community and Environmental Psychology.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the overlap between personal and political aspects of life within the context of psychotherapy. It sketches out a clear and detailed narrative of the complex interrelations between psychotherapy, society, and politics. It articulates a theoretical basis f...

Table of Contents:

• Part I – Theory
• 1. Politics, not what you had in mind!
• 2. Psychotherapy's forgotten political narrative
• 3. The return of the political to the discourse of therapy
• 4. Psychotherapy: between the personal and the political
• 5. Theories with an agenda
• Part II – Practice
• 6. Politics in professional training
• 7. "Psychology under the influence": Psychologists Versus Injurious Realities
• 8. Politically sensitive psychotherapy
• 9. Political Attentiveness: Dealing with Political Materials in Therapy
• 10. The Alchemy of Psychotherapy: Transforming Discontent into Power
• Part IV – The Israeli Case
• 11. Psychotherapy as a mirror of society: The Israeli context
• 12. "Political dialogues": Critical analysis of the psychotherapeutic discourse in Israel
• 13. Politics in therapy: A survey among Israeli clinical psychologists
• 14. Clinical psychologists facing psychopolitical dilemmas
• 15. An Israeli psychotherapy?
• Epilogue. .