Essay: On spirituality and social work practice |
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Authors: | Carolyn Jacobs M.S.W. Ph.D. |
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Affiliation: | Associate Professor and Chair of the Research Sequence , Smith College School for Social Work , |
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Abstract: | Abstract Gradually, developments in both psychoanalytic theory and practice have pushed the psychoanalytic therapist from a position of presumed knowing and automatic authority towards a more full, complex and parallel participation in the therapeutic process. This dethroning corresponds to the more general undermining of the expert in the postmodern critique of established knowledge and power relations. It is argued that the shift has come about within psychoanalysis by the increasingly environmentalist tilt in theory, by the ascendance of countertransference thinking, and by the demise of the natural science model for psychoanalytic theory. Some implications for practice deriving from these changes are discussed. |
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