Psychotherapy in Everyday Life (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Series Foreword......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
Technical Rationality......Page 19
Guild Innovationism......Page 20
1.2. Process Studies in Sessions......Page 21
1.3. Professional Centeredness and Desubjectification of Clients and Therapists......Page 23
1.4. Client Perspectives in Sessions......Page 24
1.5. Clients as Agents, Consumers, and Users......Page 26
1.6. How Does Therapy Work across Places?......Page 28
1.7. Assuming Identical Client Functioning in Sessions and Elsewhere......Page 30
1.8. Looking beyond Sessions......Page 32
1.9. Taking Professional Charge of the Everyday......Page 33
1.10. Re-Searching Changing Therapeutic and Everyday Practices......Page 35
2 Theorizing Persons in Structures of Social Practice......Page 37
Conceptualizing Structures of Social Practice......Page 38
Social Contexts and the Structure of Social Practice......Page 39
Arrangements of Contextual Practices and of the Links between Them......Page 41
The Local Presence of Cross-Cutting Issues......Page 42
2.2. Persons as Situated Participants in Social Practice......Page 44
Persons as Participants......Page 45
Personal Participation in Context......Page 47
Personal Positions and Concerns in Context......Page 48
Personal Abilities in Context......Page 49
Personal Reasons and Understandings in Context......Page 50
Personal Change and Conflicts in Context......Page 51
2.3. Personal Trajectories in a Complex Social Practice......Page 54
Complexity and Diversity in Personal Social Practice......Page 55
Distributing, Linking, and Balancing Participation and Stakes in Social Practices......Page 57
Gathering, Adopting, and Pursuing Personal Stances......Page 58
The Mediation and Reach of Personal Activities across Contexts......Page 61
3.1. The Unit of Outpatient Child Psychiatry and the Project......Page 63
3.2. The Interviews......Page 64
3.3. Relations between the Interviews and the Ongoing Therapy......Page 66
3.4. Studying the Everyday Lives of Persons Attending Therapy......Page 68
3.5. The Chosen Case and Its Therapy......Page 70
4.1. Getting Outside Help......Page 74
4.2. Having Problems......Page 77
4.3. Orientation toward Therapy......Page 82
4.4. What Can Therapists Do?......Page 84
4.5. Participation in Sessions......Page 87
4.6. Diverse Perspectives, Modes of Participation, and Stakes in Sessions......Page 91
4.7. Diverse Re-Interpretations of Sessions Elsewhere......Page 92
4.8. Struggles over Sessions and Their Uses......Page 95
5.1. Diverse Modes of Participation in Diverse Contexts......Page 100
5.2. Particular Features of Sessions Work in Conflictual Practices......Page 105
5.3. Ways to Include Sessions at Home......Page 109
5.4. Pursuing Concerns and Gathering Stances across Times and Places......Page 115
5.5. Experience, Reflection, and Talk across Contexts......Page 120
6.1. Understanding Change......Page 125
6.2. Changing from Different Angles......Page 127
6.3. Continuing Pursuits and Other Conflicts......Page 135
6.4. When Have We Had Enough?......Page 140
6.5. Changing Understandings of Change......Page 144
Sameness and Difference, Routines and Variations in Changes......Page 146
Learning in a Changing Social Practice......Page 149
Self-Confidence and Pulling Myself Together in Social Practice......Page 151
Stability and Hanging Togetherness in a Changing Practice......Page 152
Understanding Open-Ended Changes......Page 153
7.1. Focus and Frame......Page 157
Relating to Angie's Symptoms and Problems......Page 158
Being Cross at Home......Page 160
“Now I Must Pull Myself Together”......Page 164
Problems in Other Places......Page 169
Taking Care of Others and Your Own Life......Page 172
7.3. Problems Subside, Vary, and Flare Up......Page 173
“We Have to Find Each Other Again”......Page 174
“She Has Done Everything to Ruin Our Trust”......Page 178
Making Joint Arrangements for Different Lives......Page 180
7.4. One Problem after Another......Page 183
“We Don't Turn the Same Things into Problems”......Page 185
7.5. Re-Considering Changing Problems......Page 188
Illness Problems in Everyday Life......Page 190
Changing Open-Ended Problems......Page 193
Changing Understandings of Problems......Page 195
8.1. The Conduct of Everyday Life......Page 197
8.2. The Life Trajectory......Page 205
Conducting a Life in Dependency......Page 214
Moving Confidently around in Separate Worlds......Page 218
An Unstable, Varying, and Changing Conduct of Life and Self-Understanding......Page 220
Being Away and at Home......Page 223
Reaching Toward What?......Page 225
Being Away Most of the Time......Page 227
Living in Separate Worlds......Page 228
Taking Care of Myself in My Room......Page 230
Struggling with the Way I Conduct Myself......Page 232
Switches as Changes?......Page 233
Resentment, Self-Confidence, Self-Respect, and Change......Page 235
Being Told, Deciding for Myself, or Being Heard......Page 237
Leaving School, Changing My Conduct of Life, and Future Perspectives......Page 239
Being Strongly Committed to Leading an Ordinary Life......Page 242
“The Mother Takes Care of It All“
......Page 243
“But I Think It's Unfair!”......Page 245
“I'm Going to Lead a Different Life”......Page 247
“We Created It Ourselves”......Page 249
Changing Her Practice of Care......Page 251
Rising Aspirations, Dissatisfaction, and Disappointments......Page 254
Changing from the Periphery......Page 257
Being Targeted in Disagreements over Changes......Page 258
Trust and Clarification of Stances......Page 260
Being Good Enough?......Page 262
Becoming More Supportive Yet Remaining Less Central......Page 264
Threatening to Leave and Recognizing Differences......Page 265
Needing Time to Ponder and Being Less Optimistic......Page 266
Striking a New Balance and Beginning to Look Ahead......Page 267
Pursuing Continuity and Change......Page 269
11 The Changing Conduct of Everyday Family Life and Family Trajectory......Page 271
11.1. The Changing Conduct of Everyday Family Life......Page 273
Making Open Family Arrangements......Page 274
Arranging Family Life for Family Matters......Page 276
Considering Other Parts of Members' Lives......Page 278
Taking Care of Each Other at Home......Page 281
Being a "We" with Four Different Persons......Page 283
Intimate Troubles......Page 284
11.2. The Changing Family Trajectory......Page 286
Changing Understandings and Pursuits of a Family Trajectory......Page 289
Changing Arrangement of Family Care......Page 291
Learning and Getting It Right or Wrong......Page 293
Changing Commitments and Understandings with Each Other......Page 295
Changing Family Relationships......Page 297
Intricacies of a Changing Family Trajectory......Page 298
Understanding Transformations......Page 301
12.1. Researching Persons in Social Practice......Page 303
12.2. Conceptual Dimensions and Outcomes of the Project......Page 310
12.3. Empirical Dimensions and Outcomes of the Project......Page 318
12.4. Uses of Research in Social Practice......Page 325
References......Page 331
Author Index......Page 343
Subject Index......Page 345