Therapy Beyond Modernity

House, Richard

• Foreword -- Introduction -- The Profession-Centred Therapy Form -- Therapy in deconstructive perspective -- Therapy's “regime of truth” -- Deconstructing profession-centred therapeutic practice: I. Resistance, boundaries and "frame", holding, "material" generation -- Deconstructing profession-centred therapeutic practice: II. Confidentiality, safety, abuse, ethics -- "Consumer" Experiences of Profession-Centred Therapeutic Practice -- Experiences of profession-centred therapeutic practice: I. Background issues -- Rosie Alexander's Folie à Deux -- Ann France's Consuming Psychotherapy -- Anna Sands' Falling for Therapy -- A New Paradigm, Post-Professional Era? -- Precursor of post-modernity: the phenomenon of Georg Groddeck -- The “New Paradigm” challenge: intimations of a post-professional era -- Whither “Post-Professional” Therapy? -- Reflections on profession-centred therapy -- Elaborations on the “post-professional” era -- Conclusion: who, then, would be a therapist? -- Afterword