PSY494 Visiting lecturer

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavel Nepustil, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Bc. Kateřina Novotná (assistant)
prof. PhDr. Zbyněk Vybíral, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zbyněk Vybíral, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavel Nepustil, Ph.D.
Prerequisites
No.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 8 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
"Postmodern Collaborative Approach to Therapy: Relationships and Conversations that make a Difference." 8th to 11th March 2010. Lecturer: Ph.D. María del Rocío Chaveste Gutiérrez (Kanankil Institute, Mérida, México). At the end of the course the students will be able to: • Identify the basis of postmodern psychotherapy • Understand the reflexive process and its multiple capabilities • Learn about collaborative practices and its application to community work on issues like addictions, politics and violence
Syllabus
  • In this course we will: • explore the postmodern collaborative conversational approach in therapy, and the work of Harlene Anderson, • understand this approach “As a stance and attitude that reflects ways of having relationships and conversations with people, including ways of thinking, acting and responding.” • get involve with each other and with ourselves in a mutual questioning about the subject we’re dealing with that leads us to conversations that make a difference • analyze the postmodern approach in the world of psychotherapy • explore the main thoughts that gave birth to these ideas: o First and Second Cybernetics, o Humberto Maturana’s idea that the observer is a languaging entity. o The influence of contemporary science and philosophy from Albert Einstein to Ludwig Wittgestein, o Constructivism and the idea that the reality is created, o Lynn Hoffman’s idea that the processes determinates the structures because the systems are in continue evolution, o Contemporary/relational Hermeneutics with the notion of language and knowledge as representational. o Social constructionism with the idea that knowledge is a communal construction, o The influence of Mihail Bakhtin and Lev Vygotsky, on the ideas of John Shotter and conversational realities. • explore the substantial change that this approach brings when working with families and individuals as well as people involved in different type of relationships • understand the notion of Self and identity as well as linguistic and social constructs in narrative and collaborative theory, • review basic assumptions, the key premises of Knowledge and language, as well as the Philosophical Stance, and their implications in therapy. • experience the reflexive process as a concept with multiple possibilities, and if the group wants, and we have the time, we will make an “As if” consultation. • present some collaborative practices in community, and how they were addressed in issues like addictions, politics and violence as an example.
Literature
    required literature
  • ANDERSON, Harlene. Konverzace, jazyk a jejich možnosti : postmoderní přístup k terapii. Translated by Pavel Nepustil. Vyd. 1. v českém jazyce. Brno: NC Publishing, 2009, 235 s. ISBN 9788090385863. info
  • GERGEN, Kenneth J. Realities and relationships : soundings in social construction. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994, xii, 356. ISBN 0674749316. info
  • Anderson, H. 1990. Then and now: From knowing to not-knowing.Contemporary Family Therapy Journal 12:193-198.
  • Anderson, H. & Goolishian, H. 1992. The client is the expert: A not-knowing approach to therapy. In S. McNamee and K. Gergen (Eds.), Social Construction and the Therapeutic Process (pp. 25-39). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
    recommended literature
  • Goolishian, H. 1989. The self: Some thoughts from a postmodern perspective on the intersubjectivity of mind. Unpublished manuscript.
  • Madison, G. B. 1988. The Hermeneutics of Postmodernity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Gergen, K. J. 1982. Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge. New York: Springer Verlag.
  • Warneke, G. 1987. Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason. CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Gergen, K. J., Hoffman, L., & Anderson, H. 1995. Is diagnosis a disaster: A constructionist trialogue. In F. Kaslow (Ed.), Handbook of Relational Diagnosis (pp. 102-118). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
  • Goolishian, H. & Anderson, H. 1981. Including non-blood-related persons in family therapy. In A. Gurman (Ed.), Questions and Answers in the Practice of Family Therapy (pp. 75-79). New York: Brunner/Mazel.
  • Hoffman, L. 1985. Beyond power and control: Toward a "second order" family systems therapy. Family Systems Medicine, 3:381-396.
  • Dell, P.F. & Goolishian, H.A. (1981) An evolutionary epistemology for cohesive phenomena. In Group Cohesion: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives. H. Kellerman (Ed.). Grune & Stratton: New York. P. 441-448.
  • Anderson, H. & Burney, P. 1997. Collaborative inquiry: A postmodern approach to organizational consultation. Human Systems:The Journal of Systemic Consultation and Management. 7(2-3):177-188.
  • Dell, P.F. & Goolishian, H. (1981) Order through fluctuation: An evolutionary epistemology for human systems. Australian Journal of Family Therapy. 2:175-184.
  • Shotter, J. 1991b. Rhetoric and the social construction of cognitivism. Theory and Psychology 1:495-513.
  • Messar, S. B., Sass, L. A., & Woolfolk, R. L. (Eds.) 1988. Hermeneutics and Psychological Theory: Interpretive Perspectives on Personality, Psychotherapy, and Psychopathology. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Wachterhauser, B. R. (Ed.) 1986a. Introduction: History and language in understanding. In Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy (pp. 5-61). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
  • Shotter, J. 1993a. Conversational Realities: Constructing Life Through Language. London: Sage.
  • Shotter, J. 1989. Social accountability and the social construction of 'you'. In J. Shotter & K. J. Gergen (Eds.), Texts of Identity (pp. 133-151). London: Sage
  • Hoffman, L. 1981 Foundations of Family Therapy. New York: Basic Books
  • Maturana, H. & Varela, F. 1987. The Tree of Knowledge. Boston: New Science Library, Shambhala Publications.
  • Wachterhauser, B. R. (Ed.) 1986b. Must we be what we say? Gadamer on truth in the human sciences. In Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy (pp. 219-240). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
  • Gergen K. J. 1985. The social constructionist movement in modern psychology.American Psychologist 40:255-275.
  • Anderson, H. & Swim, S. (1994) Supervision as collaborative conversation: Combining the supervisor and the supervisee voices. Journal of Systemic Therapies. 14(2):1-13.
  • WATZLAWICK, Paul, Don D. JACKSON and Janet Beavin BAVELASOVÁ. Pragmatika lidské komunikace :interakční vzorce, patologie a paradoxy. Translated by Barbora Zídková - Zbyněk Vybíral. Vyd. 1. Hradec Králové: Konfrontace, 1999, 243 s. ISBN 80-86088-04-9. info
  • GADAMER, Hans-Georg. Truth and method. Translated by Joel Weinsheimer - Donald G. Marshall. 2., rev. ed. London: Sheed and Ward, 1989, xxxviii, 5. ISBN 0-7220-9281-4. info
    not specified
  • SELECTED CHAPTERS FROM THE BOOKS AND ARTICLES WILL BE UPLOADED TO STUDY MATERIALS IN ADVANCE
Teaching methods
lectures; small group discussions; class discussions; live consultations
Assessment methods
Credit received after at least 80 % attendance. Students are also required to write a short essay on collaborative therapy or proposal for using collaborative practices in different settings after finishing the course.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: 14. 4. - 16. 4. in sum 16 hours.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012.
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