Psychotherapy in Everyday Life [Paperback]

In this book, Dreier shines important new light on processes of personal change and learning in practice.Psychotherapy in Everyday Life demonstrates how clients employ therapy work in their daily lives. The book shines important new light on processes of personal change and learning in practice. More generally speaking, it launches a theory of personhood based on how people conduct their everyday lives in social practice.Psychotherapy in Everyday Life demonstrates how clients employ therapy work in their daily lives. The book shines important new light on processes of personal change and learning in practice. More generally speaking, it launches a theory of personhood based on how people conduct their everyday lives in social practice.Psychotherapy in Everyday Life shows how clients employ therapy in their daily lives. The varied and extensive efforts involved in this are systematically overlooked in therapy research. The book shines important new light on processes of personal change and learning in practice. More generally speaking, it launches a theory of personhood based on how persons conduct their everyday lives in social practice. This approach and many of the books findings are of immediate relevance for understanding other fields of expert practice.Introduction; 1. Researching psychotherapy as a social practice; 2. Theorizing persons in structures of social practice; 3. A study: its design and conduct; 4. Clients' ordinary lives plus sessions; 5. Therapy in clients' social practice across places; 6. Changes in clients' practice across places; 7. Changing problems across places; 8. The conduct of everyday life and the life trajectory; 9. The childrens' changing conducts of everyday life and life trajectories; 10. The parents' changing conducts of everyday life and life trajectories; 11. The changing conduct of everyday family life and family trajectory; 12. Research in social practice. ...this book shows the extensive and varied work clients do to makel“µ