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The Personal in Gender, Culture and Psychotherapy

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.

The book thus represents a substantial contribution to thinking around the intersections between psychology, psychoanalysis, systems therapy, postmodernism and social theory. Stephen Frosh is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was previously Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic, London. He is the author of numerous academic papers and several books, the most recent (with Ann Phoenix and Rob Pattman) being Young Masculinities: Understanding Boys in Contemporary Society.

Introduction PART 1: TROUBLED MASCULINITIES Fathers' Ambivalence (Too) Screaming under the Bridge Masculinity, Rationality and Psychotherapy Racism, Racialised 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 Conclusion References