ABSTRACT

The question we address in this article comes from the tension that frequently arises from the contrast between a collaborative and a political stance in therapy: Can a therapist work coherently while being informed by both collaborative-dialogic and narrative practices? We return to the concepts of collaboration and politics, as informed by each of these perspectives, and propose to understand them as being doubly intertwined. This is done by means of conceptualising collaboration as a political stance and politics as collaborative action. From the standpoint of a social constructionist epistemology for therapy, we propose that collaboration and politics be seen as sensitizing concepts, which may be used as conversational options that may create different effects, depending on the relational context of therapy. A clinical case of individual therapy is presented as an example of what these concepts might look like in actual practice.

摘要

我们在本文中提出的问题来自于治疗中合作立场与政治立场之间的对比经常引起的紧张：治疗师能否在接受合作对话和叙事实践的同时连贯地工作？我们回到协作和政治的概念，正如这些观点中的每一个所揭示的那样，并建议将它们理解为双重交织在一起。这是通过将合作概念化为政治立场和将政治概念化为合作行动来实现的。从治疗的社会建构主义认识论的角度来看，我们建议将合作和政治视为敏感概念，根据治疗的关系背景，它们可以用作可能产生不同效果的对话选项。