The Paradox of Mental Health

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By Raphael J. Becvar; Dorothy Stroh Becvar and Lynne V. Reif - Foreword by Benjamin J. Evans; Johnny Faulkner and Amy Smith

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Uses systemic theories to challenge how the medical model is used to treat mental illness today, encouraging practitioners to embrace uncertainty and curiosity and to help clients develop a conscious philosophical outlook.

Contenu

Foreword by Benjamin J. Evans, Johnny Faulkner, and Amy Smith

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Paradoxes of Mental Health/Illness: Philosophy and Theory

Chapter 1: The Paradox of Mental Health: On the Limits of Living Consciously

Chapter 2: Believing is Seeing: Exploring the Limits of Knowing

Chapter 3: Before the Beginning

Chapter 4: Contributions from Social Science and Mental Health Professionals

Chapter 5: On the Clinical Bias

Chapter 6: Conceptual Bites in Summary of the Paradox

Chapter 7: Wondering

Part II: Systemic and Social Constructionist Concepts for Therapy

Chapter 8: About Systems Theory, Constructivism, and Social Constructionism.

Chapter 9: Requiem for Systemic Marital and Family Therapy

Chapter 10: The Ecosystemic Story: Implications for Therapists

Chapter 11: Reflections on Values in Systems Theory and Social Constructionism

Chapter 12: A Story about Systemic and Social Constructionist Therapy

Chapter 13: Afterword

References

Index

About the Authors