“Practicing Method” published in Psychotherapy and Politics International
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“Practicing Method” published in Psychotherapy and Politics International

23 Dec “Practicing Method” published in Psychotherapy and Politics International

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Practicing Method: Social Therapy as Practical–Critical Psychology

Lois Holzman
Article first published online: 17 DEC 2014

Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Keywords:
practical–critical;methodology;dialectics;tool-and-result;practice of method;Marx;Vygotsky;Wittgenstein;social therapy


ABSTRACT
What Marx referred to as “practical–critical, revolutionary practice” has been shaped into a human development practice of method, that is, social therapeutics, and its psychotherapy, social therapy. Both entail the communal and reconstructive activity of human beings exercising their power qualitatively to transform the current state of things, the transformation of the world and of ourselves being one and the same task. This practice is discussed as an ontological critique of mainstream psychology and psychotherapy, representing a move from critical (opposition, resistance, and destruction or deconstruction) to practical–critical (creating something new out of what exists, reconstruction/deconstruction). Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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