On 22 Sep 2006 at 16:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Intrigued by the question and without a clue, I did a search. Here is an
> interesting site with a range of information; sponsored by the
> International Workers Party. WHAT?!
>
> Apparently the APA has a soft spot for this technique:
> http://www.ex-iwp.org/docs/Ortiz-Others/cathleen_mann_apa_2003.htm
OK, I take back my suggestion about milieu therapy. Sandra's contribution
is more promising. It led me to this:
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Journal of Constructivist Psychology
Publisher: Psychology Press, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: Volume 16, Number 3 / July-September 2003
Pages: 215 - 232
UNDECIDABLE EMOTIONS (WHAT IS SOCIAL THERAPY? AND HOW IS IT
REVOLUTIONARY?)
FRED NEWMAN
East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy, New York, New York,
USA
Abstract:
Developments in the foundations of mathematics, in particular, Gödel's
undecidability proof are brought to bear on group therapy, social
therapy, and human emotionality. The pre-Gödelian notion that the group
is nothing more than the sum total of its individual members fosters the
positivistic position that what is happening in a group is decidable or
determinable. In contrast, it is argued that groups, like formalized
mathematics, are undecidable. This point and its therapeutic implications
are expanded upon through a discussion of the group practice of social
therapy. Examples of social therapy group activity are provided to
illustrate the methodological and philosophical character of the therapy,
and in particular, the importance of creative unresolvability to
emotional growth.
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Judging from this abstract, the promise of the title of this paper ("What
is social therapy?") is not going to be fulfilled. My guess is that the
article will turn out to be impenetrable gobbldegook (which, I further
guess, is likely an alternative name for "social therapy").
Stephen
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