A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy: Exploring the Dynamics of Privilege By Malin Fors

A grammar of power in psychotherapyworker

It will likely serve as a good tool for thinking through the ways in which privilege currently impacts you and those in your life A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy Exploring the Dynamics of Privilege Important things to think about Malin Fors gives honest and personal examples to show how things can go wrong when you dont consider privilege in your professional interactions Im giving it a 3 instead of a 4 because I found it repetitive I think it could have been an article instead of a book that would also have made it accessible A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy Exploring the Dynamics of Privilege.

This book reveals four common patterns of interaction in the therapy partnership and explains how social power dynamics influence those patterns Societal issues based in power and privilege inevitably enter the therapy room In this book author Malin Fors offers an intersectional grammar to unmask the hidden dynamics Integrating theory research and a wealth of clinical narratives Fors explores four core when therapist and patient have similar levels of social power when either therapist or patient has privilege relative to the other and when both therapist and patient have similar levels of nonprivilege This fresh synthesis for which the author was awarded the 2016 APA Division 39 Johanna K Tabin Book Proposal Prize offers new language for understanding power dynamics in psychotherapy counseling and all treatment relationships Clinical topics explored include voluntary and involuntary self disclosure visible and invisible similarities between patient and therapist internalized oppression and choosing whether or not to address privilege explicitly among many others Nancy McWilliams contributed the Foreword to this book which gives professionals from any therapy orientation a helpful framework for aligning their desire for social justice with healing interactions around race gender sexuality ability class age and other differences A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy Exploring the Dynamics of Privilegereading a full book that was assigned to me in grad school is like sisyphus making it to the top of the hill A Grammar of Power in Psychotherapy Exploring the Dynamics of Privilege If this is your first foray into understanding privilege this is a great read If it is an area you have read a lot about.