Thanks, Stephen. The more I have been exploring the more I realize that social therapy is more a socialist/Marxist therapy. Redux time--a world one is more likely to visit on Law and Order SVU
-- Fred Newman, "Power and Authority" Social Therapist founder "The therapist, again, functions in the therapeutic interaction as a revolutionary leader, leading by forming a revolutionary relationship of sisterhood or brotherhood with the worker patient and together becoming a proletarian authority, which overthrows the bourgeois authority or proletarian ego...Working to help the struggling slave go through the insurrectional act of overthrow of the proletarian ego and [then] helping the worker during the long period of withering away of the proletarian ego." This page contains information The Rick A. Ross Institute has gathered about the New Alliance Party. See the Social Therapy staff and bios through this link Michael J. Lavin, Ph.D. Department of Psychology St. Bonaventure University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.sbu.edu/psychology/lavin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 9:39 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: Social Therapy On 22 Sep 2006 at 16:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 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: ------------------ 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. ---------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
