This study brings together important material on the debate about the relationship between social structures and subjectivity, thus providing a contribution to theory on the relationships between psychology, psychotherapy and social theory.

For a long time the human sciences have debated the relationship between social structures (the group) and subjectivity (the individual) with much of the debate centring round areas such as identity (gender, race, sexuality), discourse (talk, conversation, the limits of language) and therapy. This study, by a respected academic in the cross-cutting fields of gender studies, therapy and psychoanalysis, brings together important material on these debates, thus providing a contribution to theory on the relationships between psychology, psychotherapy and social theory. Stephen Frosh's book helps develop new ways of understanding the transformation of relations between self and society.

Part 1 Troubled masculinities: fathers' ambivalence (too)
screaming under the bridge
masculinity, rationality and psychotherapy
racism, racialized identities and the psychoanalytic order. Part 2 Postmodernism and family therapy: the semantics of therapeutic change
postmodernism versus psychotherapy
postmodern narratives
fundamentalism, gender and family therapy. Part 3 Beyond discourse?: what is outside discourse?
things that can't be said - psychoanalysis and the limits of language.