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- Title
Essays on Postmodernism and Social Work (Book).
- Authors
Goldstein, Howard
- Abstract
The article presents information about the book "Essays on Postmodernism and Social Work," edited by Adrienne S. Chambon and Allen Irving. The book is the outcome of a conference organized by doctoral students at the University of Toronto in Ontario. Postmodernism resists definition because, by its own premises about the vagaries of language, the act of defining cannot fully succeed. But this book is not a matter of word games. The book examines what it calls therapeutism, based on original Freudianism and its successive variations. It adds the therapeutic idea to four great doctrines of modernism: psychoanalysis, capitalism, Marxism, and democracy. It briefly describes influences of therapeutism on social work practice and policy as justification for social control and repression, the overstated role of science, and the profession's identification with the dominant male power structure and on the resulting confusion about the profession's place and role. It is largely a selected literature review useful for readers who wish to gain familiarity with major writers on postmodernism.
- Subjects
ESSAYS on Postmodernism &; Social Work (Book); POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy); SOCIAL services; MODERNISM (Christian theology); SOCIAL control; PSYCHOANALYSIS
- Publication
Social Work, 1996, Vol 41, Issue 4, p427
- ISSN
0037-8046
- Publication type
Article