Counselling Ideologies
Counseling Ideologies draws our attention to the dilemmas inherent within the therapeutic ideologies commonly subscribed to by psychotherapists and counsellors working with those who challenge heteronormative models and approaches. Identifying the modernist, heteronormative understandings of the world of implicit in the more popular models, this book employs queer theory to challenge these ideologies, drawing on disiplines both within and outside of counseling and psychology, as well as...
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Counseling Ideologies draws our attention to the dilemmas inherent within the therapeutic ideologies commonly subscribed to by psychotherapists and counsellors working with those who challenge heteronormative models and approaches. Identifying the modernist, heteronormative understandings of the world of implicit in the more popular models, this book employs queer theory to challenge these ideologies, drawing on disiplines both within and outside of counseling and psychology, as well as sociology, cultural studies and various ethnographic accounts. It highlights the dilemmas faced by those who may wish to practise as 'queer therapists', addressing not only therapeutic dilemmas, but also issues such as: identity, race, coming-out experiences, 'internalised homophobia', 'empathy', 'ethical issues', bisexuality and pathologisation. Comprising contributions from both academic experts and practitioners from the UK, USA and Austrailia, this book represents a new approach to counseling and psychotherapy that will appeal to not only to sociologists and those working in the field of mental health, but also to scholars of race and ethnicity, gender, queer studies and queer theory. These searching and critical essays provide a much needed challenge to the mainstream languages and practices of counseling whose imagineries of hetersexuality, family life and monogamy are here under fire. This book will be a significant challenge to counselors and a call to arms for queer theorists. Ken Plummer, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Essex, UK
