Michael Guilfoyle
Biographic Data
| ID | 4196516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Guilfoyle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Guilfoyle |
| SIGNATURE | GUILFOYLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-1907-6682 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Listening in narrative therapy
This article proposes an extension of narrative therapy’s ‘double-listening’ strategy. Based on the principle that people are multi-storied, double listening prompts the therapist to orient to two kinds of stories simultaneously. First, he or she hears the client’s explicit stories about the problem. These stories have an identity-constituting effect, and so the person positioned within them is considered a constituted subject. But the therapist …
Client subversions of DSM knowledge
Towards a grounding of the agentive subject in narrative therapy
This paper examines the tensions between narrative therapy’s self-identification as a Foucauldian poststructural practice, and its attachment to the notion of personal agency. Michael White—narrative therapy’s primary author—used Foucault’s work as a theoretical foundation, moving us to pose a question that White did not address: Can the narrative therapeutic commitment to an agentive subject be sustained alongside White’s loyalty to the Foucauld…
Grounding a Critical Psychoanalysis in Frameworks of Power
This article outlines two frameworks of power to explore the relationship between consulting room practices of psychoanalysis and societal networks of power. First, focus falls on Habermas's view of Freudian psychoanalysis as an emancipatory practice. Despite Habermas's problematic rationalistic interpretation of classical analysis, he may have been correct in noting that it attempts to stand in external relation to the systems of power that it s…
From Therapeutic Power to Resistance
Four ideas are used to conceptually link local therapeutic practices with macro sociocultural arrangements, and to question the feasibility of therapeutically derived resistances against them: power as a productive force; the power–knowledge integration; the power–resistance relationship; and power in context. Narrative therapy is presented as an example of a ‘therapy of resistance’, which at a micro level challenges the therapist–client power re…
Problematizing Psychotherapy
This paper explores the discursive production of a psychologized bulimic subject. Two processes are highlighted through a case study, both influencing the production of the bulimic: therapeutic operations of power; and the subjugation of non-psy accounts of bulimia. Power mechanisms in therapy encourage the client to construct a complex psychological subjectivity, enabling a psychological, self-contained account of her eating disorder, thereby fa…
Problematizing Psychotherapy
This paper explores the discursive production of a psychologized bulimic subject. Two processes are highlighted through a case study, both influencing the production of the bulimic: therapeutic operations of power; and the subjugation of non-psy accounts of bulimia. Power mechanisms in therapy encourage the client to construct a complex psychological subjectivity, enabling a psychological, self-contained account of her eating disorder, thereby fa…
Listening in narrative therapy
This article proposes an extension of narrative therapy’s ‘double-listening’ strategy. Based on the principle that people are multi-storied, double listening prompts the therapist to orient to two kinds of stories simultaneously. First, he or she hears the client’s explicit stories about the problem. These stories have an identity-constituting effect, and so the person positioned within them is considered a constituted subject. But the therapist …
Client subversions of DSM knowledge
Problematizing Psychotherapy
This paper explores the discursive production of a psychologized bulimic subject. Two processes are highlighted through a case study, both influencing the production of the bulimic: therapeutic operations of power; and the subjugation of non-psy accounts of bulimia. Power mechanisms in therapy encourage the client to construct a complex psychological subjectivity, enabling a psychological, self-contained account of her eating disorder, thereby fa…
From Therapeutic Power to Resistance
Four ideas are used to conceptually link local therapeutic practices with macro sociocultural arrangements, and to question the feasibility of therapeutically derived resistances against them: power as a productive force; the power–knowledge integration; the power–resistance relationship; and power in context. Narrative therapy is presented as an example of a ‘therapy of resistance’, which at a micro level challenges the therapist–client power re…
Grounding a Critical Psychoanalysis in Frameworks of Power
This article outlines two frameworks of power to explore the relationship between consulting room practices of psychoanalysis and societal networks of power. First, focus falls on Habermas's view of Freudian psychoanalysis as an emancipatory practice. Despite Habermas's problematic rationalistic interpretation of classical analysis, he may have been correct in noting that it attempts to stand in external relation to the systems of power that it s…
Towards a grounding of the agentive subject in narrative therapy
This paper examines the tensions between narrative therapy’s self-identification as a Foucauldian poststructural practice, and its attachment to the notion of personal agency. Michael White—narrative therapy’s primary author—used Foucault’s work as a theoretical foundation, moving us to pose a question that White did not address: Can the narrative therapeutic commitment to an agentive subject be sustained alongside White’s loyalty to the Foucauld…
Client subversions of DSM knowledge
Listening in narrative therapy
This article proposes an extension of narrative therapy’s ‘double-listening’ strategy. Based on the principle that people are multi-storied, double listening prompts the therapist to orient to two kinds of stories simultaneously. First, he or she hears the client’s explicit stories about the problem. These stories have an identity-constituting effect, and so the person positioned within them is considered a constituted subject. But the therapist …
Psychology (6 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Child Therapy and Development (2 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 works)