Practitioners as People: Dialogic Encounters for Transformation
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Uploaded: December 2015, Issue 28
 


Keywords:
Sheila McNamee, Practitioners, People, Dialogic Encounters, Transformation, Therapeutic state, Thomas Szasz, Pathologising Discourse, Michel Foucault, Diagnosis, Mental Disease, Relational Bonds, Community, Radical Presence, Relational Being. Keneth Gergen, Response, Dehumanising practices, Social activism, Construction, Isolation, Addiction, Johann Hari, Bruce Alexander, Humanising People, Future.

Sheila McNamee

Ph.D., Professor of Communication, University of New Hampshire

 

Abstract

Several important issues within our profession are addressed. These include ethical questions of evaluation, expertise, and training.