REMINDERS represents the author's chief emerging realizations by systematically viewing problems and help within an experiential family therapeutic perspective. Ample considerations on behavior deemed problematic are imparted as well as the allegedly desired qualities, skills and knowledge of the presumptive helper.
Young people ought never to be diagnosed with the traditional psychopathological labels. Exhaustive descriptions will do, even though the youngster is exacting to live with. Descriptive statement by necessity will invole the context, and this is only rightfully so since context always holds a heavy hand in the present becoming and development of the young person. Descriptive statements will be of a more decisive diagnostic value.
Tagging is frequently uncalled for. It represents a step of empowerment of the diagnostician, the emperor's new clothes in incessant remaking. Helpers far too often avoid contextual involvement and make assumptions, generalizations and conceptualizations by extracting restricted aspects of the reality they ought to address. The price tag for this sorry state of affairs must exclusively be attached to the client.
The aspiration of REMINDERS is mostly to emphatically reinstate the experiential voice of the individual, and to remind helpers that the territory they enter is love's striving and hopeful manifestations. This is an area in which experts are conspicuous by their abscence. The presence and intervention of helpers have a definite but restricted applicability and say. Helper enactment capacity at experiential negotiation is the byword. In the wake of good enough personal encounter asymptomatic and growth-inducing relatedness becomes feasible.
Jesper Juul: "I have known Lars for many years as a committed, thoughtful and poetic psychologist and family therapist. He was one of Walter Kemplers first students in Scandinavia and has now written a book which – if it was a painting – would be titled “Homage for Walt”. And it is also that. An intelligent, serious description of Walt’s work and influence on many levels – personal as well as professional and political.
Walt would have loved and hated this book! He would have loved the fact that someone wrote about him and the next minute he would have started one of his usual puissant discussions over minor details and differences of understanding. But it would also have made him proud – hopefully as proud as he deserved to be!
For those of you who were fortunate enough to meet and encounter Walt it will be full of reminders of his extraordinary talent and skills and his understanding of human behavior, but this book is much more than an analysis of his work and philosophy. It is a travel journal from a man who takes not only his love and admiration for Walt seriously but also describes how deeply it influenced his life and work.
It is also a book about how society and our profession as psychotherapists has developed in ways that are more tainted with superficiality and methods than wisdom and as such it is not a mainstream book on psychotherapy or psychology.
I’m convinced that reading this book will enrich your thinking whether you belong to the aficionados who were fortunate enough to meet the man who introduced family therapy to Europe or just seek inspiration for your own thinking and work."
Taschenbuch: 192 Seiten
Verlag: Books-on-demand
Sprache: English
ISBN-13: 978-91-631-4484-4
Preis: € 33,00 inkl. 7% MWSt
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