| Contents |
Part I. Introduction -- -- Talking Therapies, Culture, the State and Neoliberalism : Is There a Need for Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling? / Del Loewenthal -- -- Part II. What Can We Learn from Critical Psychiatry and Critical Psychology? -- -- The Medical Model : What Is It, Where Did It Come from and How Long Has It Got? / Hugh Middleton -- Towards Critical Psychotherapy and Counselling : What Can We Learn from Critical Psychology (and Political Economy)? / Ian Parker -- The Neurobiological Turn in Therapeutic Treatment : Salvation or Devastation? / Kenneth J. Gergen -- -- Part III. Users' Perspectives -- -- Personal versus Medical Meanings in Breakdown, Treatment and Recovery from 'Schizophrenia' / Tom Cotton and Del Loewenthal -- -- Part IV. Critiques Coming More from Outside -- -- Critical Theory and Psychotherapy / Anastasios Gaitanidis -- When Love Is Not All We Want : Queers, Singles and the Therapeutic Cult of Relationality / Mari Ruti and Adrian Cocking -- Relating to People as Revolutionaries / Lois Holzman -- Work in Contemporary Capitalism / Michael Rustin -- -- Part V. Critiques Coming More from Inside -- -- Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Therapy (But Were Afraid to Ask) : Fragments of a Critical Psychotherapy / Andrew Samuels -- Critical Priorities for the Psychotherapy and Counselling Community / Colin Feltham -- The Deleuzian Project / Chris Oakley -- Psychoanalysis and the Event of Resistance / Steven Groarke -- Psychology, Psychotherapy : Coming to Our Senses? / Paul Moloney -- -- Part VI. Critiques of Training and Learning -- -- Contesting the Curriculum : Counsellor Education in a Postmodern and Medicalised Era / Tom Strong, Karen H. Ross, Konstantinos Chondros and Monica Sesma-Vasquez -- Systemic Means to Subversive Ends : Maintaining the Theapeutic Space as a Unique Encounter / Jay Watts -- -- Part VII. Is There an Unfortunate Need for Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling? -- -- Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling for Opressors and Opressed : Sex, Violence and Ideology in Practice? / Del Loewenthal. |
