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Psychotherapy in Everyday Life Ole Dreier (University of Copenhagen)

Psychotherapy in Everyday Life By Ole Dreier (University of Copenhagen)

Summary

This book shines important light on processes of personal change and learning in practice, launching a new theoretical approach to personhood. Drier offers an understanding of the workings of therapy and a rich set of findings for research invaluable for graduates and practitioners in psychology, education, counseling and sociology.

Psychotherapy in Everyday Life Summary

Psychotherapy in Everyday Life by Ole Dreier (University of Copenhagen)

In this book, Dreier shows how clients make therapy work in their everyday lives. Therapy cannot fulfill its purpose until the clients can make it work outside the therapy room in relation to the concerns, people, and places of their everyday lives. Research on therapy has largely ignored these efforts. Based on session transcripts and interviews with a family of four about their everyday lives, Dreier shows the extensive and varied work the clients do to make their therapy work across places. Processes of change and learning are seen in a new perspective and it is shown that expert practices depend on how persons conduct their everyday lives. To grasp this, Dreier developed a theory of persons that is based on how they conduct their lives in social practice. This theory is grounded in critical psychology and social practice theory and is also relevant for understanding other expert practices such as education.

Psychotherapy in Everyday Life Reviews

'... the book is provocative. The important thing is what it provokes, which is consideration of what therapy means to clients when they're back home. Dreier's work is recommended for anyone interested in addressing this important question.' Theory and Psychology

About Ole Dreier (University of Copenhagen)

Ole Dreier is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, where he received both his MA and his PhD. He is a leading scholar in activity theory and critical psychology in Europe and combines work on the development of theory with research directed at developing practices in the fields of psychotherapy, health care, and education. He is a member of the Danish interdisciplinary Center for Health, Humanity, and Culture and an approved specialist in psychotherapy and supervision. Dreier has held the Wilhelm-Wundt chair in Leipzig and has been affiliated with universities in Mexico, Germany, and the United States. He is a member of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology and the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Researching psychotherapy as a social practice; 2. Theorizing persons in structures of social practice; 3. A study: its design and conduct; 4. Clients' ordinary lives plus sessions; 5. Therapy in clients' social practice across places; 6. Changes in clients' practice across places; 7. Changing problems across places; 8. The conduct of everyday life and the life trajectory; 9. The childrens' changing conducts of everyday life and life trajectories; 10. The parents' changing conducts of everyday life and life trajectories; 11. The changing conduct of everyday family life and family trajectory; 12. Research in social practice.

Additional information

NLS9780521706131
9780521706131
0521706130
Psychotherapy in Everyday Life by Ole Dreier (University of Copenhagen)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2007-11-19
350
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