Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Re-Searching Psychotherapy as a Social Practice
- 2 Theorizing Persons in Structures of Social Practice
- 3 A Study – Its Design and Conduct
- 4 Clients' Ordinary Lives Plus Sessions
- 5 Therapy in Clients' Social Practice across Places
- 6 Changes in Clients' Practice across Places
- 7 Changing Problems across Places
- 8 The Conduct of Everyday Life and the Life Trajectory
- 9 The Children's Changing Conducts of Everyday Life and Life Trajectories
- 10 The Parents' Changing Conducts of Everyday Life and Life Trajectories
- 11 The Changing Conduct of Everyday Family Life and Family Trajectory
- 12 Research in Social Practice
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives
8 - The Conduct of Everyday Life and the Life Trajectory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Re-Searching Psychotherapy as a Social Practice
- 2 Theorizing Persons in Structures of Social Practice
- 3 A Study – Its Design and Conduct
- 4 Clients' Ordinary Lives Plus Sessions
- 5 Therapy in Clients' Social Practice across Places
- 6 Changes in Clients' Practice across Places
- 7 Changing Problems across Places
- 8 The Conduct of Everyday Life and the Life Trajectory
- 9 The Children's Changing Conducts of Everyday Life and Life Trajectories
- 10 The Parents' Changing Conducts of Everyday Life and Life Trajectories
- 11 The Changing Conduct of Everyday Family Life and Family Trajectory
- 12 Research in Social Practice
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives
Summary
So far I have considered the social practice of therapy from the standpoint of clients living their lives across diverse places and participating with varying others in diverse practices. I stressed that for clients to begin therapy means that they are entering a structural arrangement in which they attend sessions at intervals with expert strangers in a way that sets off their participation in these sessions from their ordinary lives elsewhere. I focused on how therapy comes to work because clients somehow turn session phenomena into particular parts of their lives across places. And I decentered the understanding of therapy and the problems it is to treat by considering them as particular parts of the clients' ordinary lives. Now I take this decentering further by going into the conduct of everyday life and the life trajectory that all persons unfold regardless of whether they attend a therapy or not. This illuminates the workings of therapy as a part of the way the clients conduct their everyday lives and life trajectories. I already touched on phenomena belonging to their personal conduct of everyday life and life trajectory. But I did not analyze them as such. I shall now do so. It is easier to define this layer of analysis and link it to my framework after having dealt with therapy as a part of the clients' everyday lives and with their pursuit of changes and problems across contexts.
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- Psychotherapy in Everyday Life , pp. 181 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007