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Psychological Investigations: A Clinician's Guide to Social Therapy

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As an oncology social worker, the social therapeutic approach developed by Dr. Fred Newman, informs my conversations with hundreds of people each month, as I help patients and families with cancer to live life fully, in the face of their fear and pain. A riveting and radical challenge to the basic assumptions of Western philosophy and psychology, Psychological Investigations is a series of supervisory conversations, set in a clear conceptual framework that therapists-in-training and experienced clinicians have with Fred Newman.

Newman, a methodologist, psychotherapist and teacher extraordinaire, does not focus on individual problems and pathology. He provides no answers. Rather he invites those who study with him, as well as his readers, to engage in an unscientific, performatory investigation of human life. Dive in, he encourages, to a learning challenge that turns everything upside down - how we think about emotionality and truth, what a group is, how the activity of giving helps cancer patients, what it means to make demands on clients without being coercive, and much more. Get to know Fred Newman - his thinking, his values, his sensibilities, his capacity for intimacy in the service of human development. Psychological Investigations is a dialogic approach to the teaching of this radical social/cultural methodology that I think has the potential to take us out of the fly bottle of emotional pain and social crisis that pervades life in the 21st century. If you let yourself be touched, Psychological Investigations can impact profoundly on your therapeutic practice and your life. It is a must read for clinicians and healthcare professionals, students of philosophy, and anyone in despair about the social and moral crises of our times.

Author(s): Lois Holzman, Rafael Mendez
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2003

Language: English
Pages: 229

Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Acknowledgments......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
A DISCOVERY OF MOTIVE......Page 26
A PHILOSOPHER’S PRACTICE......Page 30
Dogma......Page 31
What Is a Group and Why Does It Matter When You’re Doing Therapy?......Page 33
A STORYTELLER’S PRACTICE......Page 38
The Language of Children......Page 40
LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE......Page 41
EXPLANATIONS AND EXPLAININGS......Page 43
A DIALOGIC INTERLUDE......Page 46
A DEVELOPMENTALIST’S PRACTICE......Page 48
Development and Developing......Page 49
A New Psychology of Becoming......Page 53
THE DIALECTICS OF COMPLETION......Page 55
REFERENCES......Page 60
Dialogue 2. Short-Term Therapy and Long-Term Growth......Page 69
Dialogue 3. The Improvisational Activity of Developing......Page 70
Dialogue 4. The Politics of Being and Becoming......Page 73
Dialogue 5. What Develops? (Overcoming Individualism)......Page 77
Dialogue 6. Radical Acceptance and Emotional Growth......Page 79
Dialogue 7. Choosing to Grow......Page 80
Dialogue 8. Creating Zones of Proximal Development......Page 82
Dialogue 9. Engaging Alienation......Page 84
Dialogue 10. Relational Awareness......Page 85
Dialogue 11. Creativity as a Collective Impulse......Page 87
Dialogue 12. The Limitations of Elitism......Page 90
Dialogue 14. Creating Meaning......Page 93
Dialogue 15. Performance in/and Therapy......Page 95
Dialogue 16. Performance and Behavior......Page 98
Dialogue 17. Improvisational Learning......Page 100
Dialogue 18. Description as Truth Telling......Page 103
Dialogue 20. Don’t Share Knowledge......Page 105
Dialogue 21. The Language of Problems......Page 107
Dialogue 22. Making the Problem Vanish......Page 109
Dialogue 23. There Are No Answers......Page 110
Dialogue 24. The Oppression of Identity......Page 112
Dialogue 25. Particularity, Not Identity......Page 114
Dialogue 26. Culture and Assumptions......Page 115
Dialogue 27. The Paradoxicality of the Other......Page 117
Dialogue 29. Talking to the Group......Page 120
Dialogue 31. Freedom and Participation......Page 123
Dialogue 32. Creating a Shared Experience......Page 127
Dialogue 33. Bringing Someone Into Group......Page 129
Dialogue 34. Listening......Page 130
Dialogue 36 Group Understanding......Page 132
Dialogue 37. Abandoning the Group......Page 135
Dialogue 38. Responding to Individuals While Building the Group......Page 137
Dialogue 39. Relating to Stories......Page 142
Dialogue 40. Creating, Not Invoking, New Ways of Seeing......Page 145
Dialogue 41. Radically Improvising......Page 147
Dialogue 42. Learning to Be Intimate......Page 149
Dialogue 43. Challenging Assumptions......Page 151
Dialogue 44. Being Demanding......Page 152
Dialogue 46. Being Adored......Page 153
Dialogue 47. Being Intuitive......Page 155
Dialogue 48. Don’t Be a Helper......Page 156
Dialogue 49. Women, Men, and Sexism......Page 160
Dialogue 50. Men Who Act Violent......Page 165
Dialogue 51. The Fragile Client......Page 170
Dialogue 52. The Silent Client......Page 172
Dialogue 53. The Dramatic Client......Page 173
Dialogue 54. Helping People in Crisis......Page 177
Dialogue 55. Humanizing Our Culture......Page 181
Dialogue 56. The Activity of Giving......Page 183
Dialogue 57. The Language of Massage......Page 185
Dialogue 58. Minds, Bodies, and Subjectivity......Page 187
Dialogue 59. Creating Health......Page 194
Dialogue 60. Inside and Outside the Institution of Medicine......Page 196
Dialogue 61. The Relational in Self Help......Page 198
Dialogue 62. Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts......Page 201
Dialogue 63. Dualism and Connectionism......Page 205
Dialogue 64. Dialectics and Contradiction......Page 206
Dialogue 65. Particulars and Totalities......Page 208
Dialogue 66. Undecidability and Emotions......Page 210
Dialogue 67. Alienation and Humiliation......Page 212
Dialogue 68. On Not Making Distinctions......Page 214
Dialogue 69. Beyond Postmodernism?......Page 215
Dialogue 70. It’s All Activity......Page 217
I.......Page 219
III.......Page 220
IV.......Page 221
VI.......Page 222
VIII.......Page 223
X.......Page 224
BOOKS......Page 227
BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES......Page 228
MONOGRAPHS......Page 229