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Therapy in/and/of/by the World
Author(s) -
Samuels Andrew
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1111/j.0814-723x.1999.00112.x
Subject(s) - transformative learning , politics , spirituality , experiential learning , relation (database) , sociology , environmental ethics , political science , aesthetics , public relations , media studies , law , medicine , pedagogy , art , philosophy , alternative medicine , pathology , database , computer science
The author begins by owning the personal circumstances and history that inspired him to write. He moves on to discuss how certain changes in Western political processes and structures deserve the tag of ‘transformative politics’. A third section explores in a critical spirit whether or not therapists can have a collective impact in relation to current pressing social and political problems. The next section, entitled ‘the inner politician’, offers an experiential approach to the politics that irradiate people's inner worlds and personal stories. Finally, the author reflects on the links between therapy, politics and spirituality.