Out of their Class: Class, Colonization and Resistance in Analytic Psychotherapy and Group Analysis
Вне своего класса: класс, колонизация и сопротивление в аналитической психотерапии и групповом анализе
2002-09-01
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Classes are constituted historical/v by their activity in relation to the means of production. Their cultures are formed in that context. Psychotherapy is a middle-class cultural form. When working-class clients seek psychotherapy, there is an encounter between two cultures in which the historically evolved relations between the classes, both cooperative and antagonistic, are enacted. Recognition of this is problematic for psychotherapy including group analysis.
Key Findings
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Analytic psychotherapy and group analysis face a significant challenge in recognizing and addressing class and colonial dynamics within therapeutic practice.
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Psychotherapy is characterized as a predominantly middle-class cultural form, creating potential cultural tensions when working-class clients seek treatment.
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Social classes are historically constituted through their relationships to the means of production, which shape distinct class cultures.
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Therapeutic encounters between working-class clients and middle-class psychotherapy enact historically developed class relations, including both cooperation and antagonism.
Research Object
The encounter between working-class clients and psychotherapy, including group analysis, as a middle-class cultural form
Research Subject
The enactment and recognition of historically evolved class relations, including cooperation, antagonism, and colonization, within psychotherapy and group analysis
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