1. The Structure of Social Scientific Revolutions
2. Neuroplasticity
3. The Pragmatists
4. The Postmodernists
5. The Social Construction of Reality
6. Vocabularies, Institutionalization, and Power
7. The DSM Criticized By Its Makers (Applies Equally to ICD)
8. Why this is the Wrong Metaphor to Begin With
9. The Creation of the Patient
10. Unleash This Creativity Onto the World
11. A Postmodern Narrative – the Subjectivity of Compassion
12. The New Psychology is an Art Form
13. If language is so powerful, then what we want is a powerful
language – Postmodern Coaching
14. Postmodern Guerilla Tactics in Modernist Institutions
Michael T. Walker, PhD, is practicing psychologist in Los Angeles.
In clear and compelling terms, Walker joins a phalanx of critics
who challenge the constraining and injurious practice of mental
illness diagnosis. However, Walker draws from his extensive
experience as a therapist and coach to explore a humanistic
alternative to knee-jerk drug prescriptions. As he demonstrates,
the results of artful compassion are indeed consistent with those
of contemporary neuroscience. This is essential reading for
therapists and the public alike.
*Kenneth J. Gergen, Swathmore College; author of An Invitation to
Social Construction*
This passionate and captivating book offers important
clarifications and distinctions at a crucial time in the history of
postmodern ideas. It is a professionally inspiring read for anyone
interested in incorporating neuroscience in psychotherapy while
honoring the complexity of human life experience. It will
definitely be on my students' required reading list.
*Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin, PhD; co-editor of Collaborative Therapies
and Neurobiology: Evolving Practices in Action*
Walker challenges us to break free from the taken for granted
beliefs of the medical model, which have long suffered from a
frozen worldview and hardened categories. He invites us to cross
the threshold into a postmodern landscape, an indeterminate space
where therapy is practiced as an art form, where language generates
new realities and multiple possibilities, and where
intersubjectivity becomes the therapist’s ‘studio’ and the ‘key to
neuroplasticity’. I strongly recommend this timely book.
*Jim Duvall, editor of the Journal of Systemic Therapies; co-editor
of Collaborative Therapies and Neurobiology: Evolving Practices in
Action*
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