Medicalizing Counselling

Tom Strong is a professor, couple and family therapist, and counsellor-educator at the University of Calgary, Canada. He researches and writes on the collaborative, critically-informed and practical potentials of discursive approaches to psychotherapy.

• 1. Tensions in Medicalizing the Talking ‘Cure’.- 2. Discourses of Counselling and Human Concern.- 3. Human Concerns as Diagnosable Mental Health Disorders.- 4. Legitimizing an Emergent Mental Health ‘Monoculture’?.- 5. Individualizing and Socializing the Mental Health Monoculture.- 6. Medicating and Technologizing our Diagnosable Lives.- 7. Medicalizing Tensions Associated with Administering and Regulating Counselling.- 8. Tensions for Front Line Counsellors?.- 9. Tensions in Training Counsellors?.- 10. Living with Tensions Associated with Medicalizing Counselling.