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This book attempts to shake up' the current complacency around therapy and mental health' behaviours by putting therapy fully into context using Social Contextual Analysis; showing how changes to our social, discursive, and societal environments, rather than changes to an individual's mind', will reduce suffering from the mental health' behaviours.

Guerin challenges many assumptions about both current therapy and psychology, and offers alternative approaches, synthesized from sociology, social anthropology, sociolinguistics, and elsewhere. The book provides a way of addressing the mental health' behaviours including actions, talking, thinking, and emotions, by taking people's external life situations into account, and not relying on an imagined internal source'. Guerin describes the broad contexts for current Western therapies, referring to social, discursive, cultural, societal, and economic contexts, and suggests that we need to research the components of therapies an

Reimagining Therapy through Social Contextual Analyses

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 7/29/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781032292403
      978-1032292403
      ISBN-10 1032292407
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      Groups and group theory Social counselling and advice services Social, group or collective psychology

      Description

      This book attempts to shake up' the current complacency around therapy and mental health' behaviours by putting therapy fully into context using Social Contextual Analysis; showing how changes to our social, discursive, and societal environments, rather than changes to an individual's mind', will reduce suffering from the mental health' behaviours.

      Guerin challenges many assumptions about both current therapy and psychology, and offers alternative approaches, synthesized from sociology, social anthropology, sociolinguistics, and elsewhere. The book provides a way of addressing the mental health' behaviours including actions, talking, thinking, and emotions, by taking people's external life situations into account, and not relying on an imagined internal source'. Guerin describes the broad contexts for current Western therapies, referring to social, discursive, cultural, societal, and economic contexts, and suggests that we need to research the components of therapies an

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