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Psychotherapy as making
Historically, research and practice of psychotherapy have been conducted within conceptual frameworks defined in terms of theoretical models. These models are in turn guided by meta-theories about the purpose of psychotherapy and its place in society. An image of psychotherapy that underpins much co...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9712713/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36467223 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1048665 |
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description | Historically, research and practice of psychotherapy have been conducted within conceptual frameworks defined in terms of theoretical models. These models are in turn guided by meta-theories about the purpose of psychotherapy and its place in society. An image of psychotherapy that underpins much contemporary practice is the idea that therapy operates as an intervention that involves the implementation and application of a pre-existing theoretical model or set of empirically validated procedures. The present paper introduces the idea that it may be valuable to regard psychotherapy not as an intervention but instead as a process of making, in the sense of offering a cultural space for the co-construction of meaningful and satisfying ways of living that draw on shared cultural resources. We offer an overview of what a therapy of making might look like, followed by an account of theoretical perspectives, both within the psychotherapy literature and derived from wider philosophical and social science sources, that we have found valuable in terms of making sense of this way of thinking about practice. Our conclusion is that we need something in addition to theory-specific and protocol-driven therapies, in order to be able to incorporate the unexpected, the not-before-met perspective, event or practice of living, and to be open towards the radically new, the given, and the unknown. |
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spelling | pubmed-97127132022-12-02 Psychotherapy as making McLeod, John Sundet, Rolf Front Psychol Psychology Historically, research and practice of psychotherapy have been conducted within conceptual frameworks defined in terms of theoretical models. These models are in turn guided by meta-theories about the purpose of psychotherapy and its place in society. An image of psychotherapy that underpins much contemporary practice is the idea that therapy operates as an intervention that involves the implementation and application of a pre-existing theoretical model or set of empirically validated procedures. The present paper introduces the idea that it may be valuable to regard psychotherapy not as an intervention but instead as a process of making, in the sense of offering a cultural space for the co-construction of meaningful and satisfying ways of living that draw on shared cultural resources. We offer an overview of what a therapy of making might look like, followed by an account of theoretical perspectives, both within the psychotherapy literature and derived from wider philosophical and social science sources, that we have found valuable in terms of making sense of this way of thinking about practice. Our conclusion is that we need something in addition to theory-specific and protocol-driven therapies, in order to be able to incorporate the unexpected, the not-before-met perspective, event or practice of living, and to be open towards the radically new, the given, and the unknown. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9712713/ /pubmed/36467223 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1048665 Text en Copyright © 2022 McLeod and Sundet. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology McLeod, John Sundet, Rolf Psychotherapy as making |
title | Psychotherapy as making |
title_full | Psychotherapy as making |
title_fullStr | Psychotherapy as making |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychotherapy as making |
title_short | Psychotherapy as making |
title_sort | psychotherapy as making |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9712713/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36467223 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1048665 |
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