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The Environment: Its Role in Psychosocial Functioning and Psychotherapy
Carolyn Saari
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Description for The Environment: Its Role in Psychosocial Functioning and Psychotherapy
Hardback. Saari posits that human beings may first construct a picture of their immediate environment and then construct their identity within that environment. She argues that the psychotherapeutic profession must extend its range to include socio-cultural-economic factors and she includes ample case studies to support her position. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHBA; JMC; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Challenging Freud's assumption that an individual first develops intrapsychically and is only later confronted with the demands of external reality, Carolyn Saari posits that human beings initially construct a picture of their immediate environment and then construct their identities within that environment. The Environment is an argument in three parts. Part 1 discusses psychoanalytic and developmental theory, showing that while such theory has assumed the existence of an environment, it has taken for granted and therefore left unexamined its role in human development. Michel Foucault's theory of social control provides the framework for Part 2, which examines psychotherapy's capacity either ... Read more
Challenging Freud's assumption that an individual first develops intrapsychically and is only later confronted with the demands of external reality, Carolyn Saari posits that human beings initially construct a picture of their immediate environment and then construct their identities within that environment. The Environment is an argument in three parts. Part 1 discusses psychoanalytic and developmental theory, showing that while such theory has assumed the existence of an environment, it has taken for granted and therefore left unexamined its role in human development. Michel Foucault's theory of social control provides the framework for Part 2, which examines psychotherapy's capacity either ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231121965
SKU
V9780231121965
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Ref
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About Carolyn Saari
Carolyn Saari is a professor of social work at Loyola University of Chicago. She is the author of Clinical Social Work Treatment: How Does It Work? and The Creation of Meaning in Clinical Social Work and editor of the Clinical Social Work Journal.
Reviews for The Environment: Its Role in Psychosocial Functioning and Psychotherapy
Consistent with the paradigmatic emphases, dialogue and narrative are seen as crucial to this process. This material resonates so loudly and validates my own developing views of what great clinical practice is about.
Kia J. Bentley Clinical Social Work Journal
Kia J. Bentley Clinical Social Work Journal