Furthering Talk

Thomas Strong, Ph.D. is a psychologist and counselor educator at the University of Calgary. Formerly a practitioner throughout northwestern British Columbia, he recently re-entered academic life to explore the possibilities of discursive and postmodern thought for collaborative practice. Inspired by dialogica thinkers like Bakhtin, Garfinkel and Wittgenstein, his writing explores pragmatic and ethical issues such thought holds for psychotherapy, health conversations, and counselor education/supervision. Strong is also involved. In the Discursive Therapies ("The Virtual Faculty") graduate program offered online from Massey University in New Zealand. David Paré, Ph.D. is a psychologist and counselor educator at the University of Ottawa as well as co-director (with Mishka Lysack) of the Glebe Institute, A Centre for Constructive and Collaborative Practice, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. For the past decade his work has focused on the ‘postmodern turn’ in family therapy and psychotherapy. David has a particular interest in narrative ideas and practices; in addition to writing and presenting widely on that topic, he offers training and supervision to practitioners interested in developing collaborative therapeutic practices. He is currently conducting participatory action research with students into the process of teaching and learning collaborative therapy.

1 • Striving for Perspicuity: Talking Our Way Forward.- 2 • Levinas: Therapy as Discourse Ethics.- 3 • Acknowledging the Otherness of The Other: Poetic Knowing in Practice and the Fallacy of Misplaced Systematicity.- 4 • Narrating the Difference.- 5 • Power, Authority, and Pointless Activity: The Developmental Discourse of Social Therapy.- 6 • A Postmodern Collaborative Approach: A Family’s Reflections on “In-the-Room” and “On-the-Challenge Course” Therapy. It’s all Language.- 7 • The Client’s Nonverbal Utterances, Creative Understanding & The Therapist’s Inner Conversation.- 8 • Discursive Approaches to Clinical Research.- 9 • Coming to Terms with Violence and Resistance: From a Language of Effects to a Language of Responses.- 10 • What’s Love Got to do with it? Managing Discursive Positions and Mediating Conflict Within a Heterosexual Love Relationship.- 11 • Certainties v. Epiphanies: Forensic Therapies and Adversarial Assessments.- 12 • Mesmerizing Violent Offenders with a Slice of Life: Drama and Reflexivity in the Treatment of Men Who Abuse their Spouses.- 13 • Radical Youthwork: Creating and Becoming Everyone.- 14 • Response-Able Practice: A Language of Gifts in the Institutions of Health Care.- 15 • Therapy As Social Construction: Back to Basics and Forward toward Challenging Issues.- Author Index.