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    What is Normal?: Psychotherapists Explore the Question

    Editors: Roz Carroll and Jane Ryan

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    Roz Carroll and Jane Ryan

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    9781913494209

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    Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

    Page Extent

    192

    Publication Date

    November 2020

    Subject Areas

    Psychotherapy

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    Many people strive to be normal, and deviation from accepted norms can feel likefailure. But why do we want to be normal? And what does that mean? Ordinary? Sane? Similar? When probed, the notion of normality starts to look fragile. It is not clear who decides what being normal means or who is entitled to say. Nonetheless, concerns about conforming and being accepted are deeply pervasive.

    With an extraordinary diversity of perspectives, the authors featured in this collection – all psychotherapists – use biographical accounts, political analyses and clinical vignettes to challenge the concept of normality. Through these stories and discussions, it emerges that our very uniqueness, oddness and differences as individuals are what make us fully human.

    At a time of rapid social change, the freedom to be oneself – whatever form that takes – is at the core of contemporary debate, and this volume makes a vital contribution to that project.

    About the editors

    About the editors

    Roz Carroll is a relational body psychotherapist and supervisor. She teaches on the MA in Integrative Psychotherapy at The Minster Centre and has been a regular speaker for Confer for twenty years. She is committed to interdisciplinary dialogue. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on subjects from working with the body in psychotherapy, to intersubjectivity, collective trauma, culture, and the mediating value of creative process.

    Jane Ryan trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in the early 1990s. She is the founder and director of Confer, an independent organisation that provides cutting-edge continuing professional development for psychotherapists and medical doctors. It also aims to provide a non-partisan space for the exchange of views between approaches.

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    Contents

    Contents

    About the Authors
    Introduction
    Acknowledgements

    1. The new normal
    Tania Glyde

    2. Therapy and hope: are they really normal?
    Andrew Samuels

    3. No escape from ‘normal’
    Doris Brothers

    4. The normal couple therapist
    Jane Haberlin

    5. Your normal, my normal. Disruptions, accommodations and respect between therapist and patient
    Susie Orbach

    6. Black paranormal: a playlist
    Foluke Taylor

    7. Normal sex
    Meg-John Barker

    8. Minding the gap: a couple psychotherapist’s perspective
    Christopher Clulow

    9. Born to love, driven to destroy
    Felicity de Zulueta

    10. The myth of normality
    Chris Oakley

    11. The shifting landscape of sexual normality
    Dany Nobus

    12. Norms and normality: a socio-psychoanalytic approach
    Stephen Seligman

    13. Why would I want to be normal?
    Lennox K. Thomas

    14. The problem of words. It’s why we are all mad!
    Phil Mollon

    15. Negotiating the normal
    Ann Shearer

    16. Flourishing: the ‘normal’ therapist versus the ‘healthy’ therapist
    Brett Kahr

    17. Cultural schizophrenia and internalised racism are not normal
    Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga

    18. In the therapy room: are all patients normal?
    Valerie Sinason

    19. When simply being human is abnormal
    Stephen Setterberg

    20. Future flat-packed or future fluid? Why normal is the problem
    Roz Carroll

    References
    Index

    1 review for What is Normal?: Psychotherapists Explore the Question

    1. Alexandra Peet, Attachment, 2024 – 20/05/2024

      ‘This book is for therapists and those interested in working with the mind and social and cultural aspects of society. […] The book developed into an anthology of twenty chapters, all of which are written by different psychotherapists and all exploring a different concept in a contemporary setting. They cover a wide range of subjects including sexuality, lying and betrayal, technology, disability, racism, trauma, language, and culture. […] The aim of the book is to increase awareness of, and sensitivity and empathy towards, the individual in today’s contemporary society.’

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