Practicing Intersubjectively

Buirski, Peter

ISBN 10: 0765703823 / ISBN 13: 9780765703828

Published by Jason Aronson, Inc., 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practicing Intersubjectively
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765703823
• ISBN 13: 9780765703828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Practicing Intersubjectively describes how the intersubjective systems perspective informs, shapes and guides the psychotherapeutic process. Using extensive clinical case material, Buirski illustrates the way an intersubjective systems sensibility informs and enriches clinical practice. The intersubjective systems perspective views each treatment as exquisitely context sensitive. This means that the person who comes for therapy would present differently to different therapists and the two of them would construct different processes. Therapists themselves are not interchangeable, and the intersubjective field that the two participants create together would be quite different from the field created by any other pair. Practicing Intersubjectively, with the focus on attuning and articulating to the contextual construction of personal worlds of experience enables a different therapy process to unfold than occurs in traditional 1-person, authority based treatment approaches and is uniquely suited to working with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and those suffering from such challenging concerns as trauma and prejudice.

About the Author

Peter Buirski, Ph.D., is dean of the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver, as well as clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He holds the Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and in Psychoanalysis from the American Board of Professional Psychology, and maintains a private practice in Denver. He is the co-author of the book, Making Sense Together: The intersubjective approach to psychotherapy, and has written on the psychotherapy process as well as on primate personality.