Voices, the Art and Science of Psychotherapy: Dynamic Engagement - Couverture souple

The American Academy Of Psychotherapists

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ISBN 10 : 1943897697 ISBN 13 : 9781943897698

Editeur : Voices: The Art & Science of Psychotherapy, 2021

Synopsis

Dynamic Engagement: Relational Connectedness Amidst the Many Faces of Change explores how we stay connected to each other amidst the many cultural shifts and changes taking place around us, challenging the status quo: changes occurring via the #Me Too movement, increased focus on gender as non-binary, Black Lives Matter and increasing awareness around racism and White privilege, and more. These many winds of change are blowing strongly, requiring organizations, social conventions, and relational dynamics to respond. The impact is felt in our society, in our organizations, in our relationships, and in our consulting rooms. How do we stay connected amidst these changes— especially if we do not speak to / think about / process these dynamics, an engagement that sometimes feels so much easier to avoid? How do we stay connected if we are of a different ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic level, religion, or political belief, especially when those differences become the focus of change? How do we bring dissimilarities and disparities into the open in ways that allow for both embracing diversity and finding common ground? How do we navigate other relational changes more immediate to us?
Authors offer experiences with the challenging dynamics of diversity and cultural change. Penny Sterling shares her story of gender transition, expressed through a poignant blend of pain and humor that alternately reveals and shields her vulnerability in seeking to become her full self. Kathryn Van der Heiden takes a nostalgic journey through the history of Voices and the Academy across decades of change and a hard look at the challenging dynamics that we face today. She offers two poems on the challenges of racism and diversity. Michal Rubin and Karen Brown recount reaching across their own racial and ethnic divide to hold space together for an Academy conversation on racism, including a poem co-written about their experience. John Rhead shares his examination of his own White privilege in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, including his shamanic engagement with Floyd and racism. He also presents a paper on what he calls malignant othering syndrome. Jillian Thomas explores staying connected amidst pandemic separation, with its backdrop of divisive upheaval, describing the conflicting pulls to engage with the bombardment of issues that confront us or to retreat into an island of safety and comfort. In book reviews, Grover Criswell reflects upon Isabel Wilkerson’s (2020) Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents in which she compares systemic racism in America to caste systems in India and Nazi Germany.
Authors explore dynamics of change within personal relationships. Abigail Dixon and Kay Loveland share their story of a foster child mentoring relationship that grew into an unexpected new family, a life-changing experience for both. Lloyd Mendelson and Don Murphy narrate the struggle to remain connected as a beloved spouse and friend fades into dementia. Wendy Graham pays a heartfelt tribute to the abiding impact of her recently deceased therapist.
Avrum Weiss explores how men’s fears of women impact heterosexual relationship dynamics, offering a taste of his new book, Hidden in Plain Sight: How Men’s Fears of Women Shape Their Intimate Relationships. His work is further exegeted in book reviews, where Matthew Leary gives us an in-depth look at Hidden in Plain Sight, while Giuliana Reed and Steven Ingram use their own “couple” relationship as co-reviewers to illustrate the lessons from Living and Loving Mutually: How To Break Free From Hurtful Relationship Patterns (Weiss, 2020).
Some lighter reading for difficult times: Jerome Gans’ humorous account of lighter moments across his career as a psychiatrist and archival pieces from a 1979 issue themed The Tired Therapist bring wisdom and humor fitting to the exhaustion of pandemic life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Voices: The Art & Science of Psychotherapy
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1943897697
• ISBN 13: 9781943897698
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 105
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