Expanding the Limits of Individual and Family Therapies: A Critical Realist Approach (Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy)

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Praise for Expanding the Limits of Individual and Family Therapies
Contents
List of Figures
1: Introduction
	Institutional Barriers
	Assembling the Elephant
	Choices
	The Book
	Who Is the Book For?
	Terms
	References
2: What Is Real? What Is Knowledge?
	First and Second Order
	Postmodernism
		The Reality of Social Construction
		The Real, the Actual, and the Empirical
		Two Inches of Difference
	References
3: Pluralism
	Catherine of Siena
	Contexts
		Culture
			Religion
			Culture and the Physical World
			Gender
		Family Relationships
		The Body
		The Self
	The Non-inevitability of Catherine
	References
4: Knowing and Not-Knowing
	Three Kinds of Knowledge
	Seven Kinds of Not-Knowing
	The Inescapability of Epistemology and Ontology
	Knowledge and Power
	Off-the-Peg Knowledge
	Lineality, Circularity, and Power
	References
5: Theory Choice
	Finding a Secure Base for Theory
	The Value of Research
	Family Resemblance, Convergence, and Predictability
	Critical Realist Science
	The Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation (DMM)
	References
6: Emotion in the System
	To Be Met as a Person
	Emotional Maps
		System of Self and Interactive Emotional Regulation
		Mentalising
		Jessica Benjamin’s Intersubjectivity
	Emotional Resonance
	References
7: Collaboration and Change
	Collaboration as a Cognitive and Emotional Experience
	Aspects of Collaboration
	After-thoughts
	References
8: Sameness and Otherness
	Experiences of Otherness
	Models of Culture
	Multidimensionality, Norm Circles, and Intersectionality
	Assumptions of Sameness
	My Position in Summary
	References
9: Who to See, and Other Choices
	Individual Psychotherapy
	Mary
	Choices in Family Therapy
	Summary
	References
10: Triangles
	The Oedipal Myth
	Sibling Triads
	The Triangulated Child
	Triangulation in Practice
		Yvonne
		Misha
		Conny
	References
11: Aggressive, Out-of-Control Behaviour
	Understanding Enacted and Mentalised Aggression
	Triangulation and the ‘Soft/Hard Split’
	The Experience of the Triangulated Child
	Healing the Split
		Paul
		Jon
		Mark
		The Smiths
	Explosive Rage
	References
12: Self-Harm and Suicidality
	Mapping Self-Harm
	Communicative/Other-Regulatory
	Secretive/Self-Regulatory
	Peer and Cultural Factors
	Therapeutic Strategies
		Jody
	The Future for Family Therapy with Self-Harm?
	References
13: Critical Realism: Why Bother?
	Do Theory and Philosophy Matter?
	Top Ten Limits
	Summary of My Position
	Finally …
	References
Index