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Complicities: A theory for subjectivity in the psychological humanities
Natasha Distiller
2022
This is the kind of writing — I hope — members of allied health and medical disciplines have been waiting for. Complicities offers a gentle, generous, highly knowledgeable, and accessible introduction to and application of transdisciplinarity at its best. Using argumentsand ideas from the critical humanities and cutting-edge approaches to neurobiology and psychotherapy, Natasha Distiller invites the reader into a world in which diversity and complexity are openly at play and the taken-for-granted is given a chance to dissolve.
—David Azul, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia
Beginning from the premise that we cannot separate ourselves from the systems that precede and formulate us as subjects, the author argues that, in reckoning with this complicity, a model of subjectivity can be created that moves beyond binaries and identity politics. In doing so, the book examines how we might develop a more socially just psychological theory and practice, which is both systems work and intra-psychological work. In bringing together ways of thinking developed in the humanities with clinical psychotherapeutic practice, this book offers one interdisciplinary take on key questions of social and emotional efficacy in action-oriented psychotherapy work.
Natasha Distiller is a psychotherapist in private practice in Berkeley, California. She is a lecturer in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at UC Berkeleyand a Beatrice Bain Research Scholar in the department.
This book is included in DOAB.
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Keywords
- attachment theory
- clinical psychology
- Crime & criminology
- critical race theory
- Feminist therapy
- Gender studies, gender groups
- History of Western philosophy
- Humanities
- Identity politics
- Intersubjectivity
- Lacanian psychoanalysis
- medicine
- open access
- Other branches of medicine
- Philosophy
- postcolonial theory
- Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
- psychological humanities
- Psychological theory & schools of thought
- Psychology
- Queer theory
- relational-cultural therapy
- Social groups
- Social Justice
- Social services & welfare, criminology
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- structural inequality
- Subjectivity
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMA Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints::JMAF Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKM Clinical psychology
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
- therapeutic transgender activism
- whiteness
Links
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79675-4web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-79675-4
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