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What is Normal?

Psychotherapists Explore the Question
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What this book reveals so clearly is that, when probed, the notion of normality is fragile and shifting. It is not clear who decides what being normal means in any historical moment, or who is entitled to say. Nonetheless, concerns with conforming, fitting in, and being accepted are deeply pervasive. For most, being normal is a goal, and deviation from accepted norms feels like failure. Yet many people do not really feel normal. When sexuality, gender, health, ethnic group or any other common variation on the dominant theme is at play someone can feel out of step with this elusive standard. Others depend on being different to be creative, radical and discerning. Readers may conclude that it is our very uniqueness as individuals that makes us usual, and that we rely on our edge dwellers for cultural growth. This fascinating book explores these issues and more.
1. The New Normal Tania Glyde 2. Therapy and Hope: Are They Really Normal? Andrew Samuels 3. No Escape from 'Normal' Doris Brothers 4. The Normal Couple Therapist Jane Haberlin 5. Your Normal, My Normal: disruptions, accommodations and respect between therapist and patient Susie Orbach 6. Black Paranormal: A Playlist Foluke Taylor 7. Normal Sex Meg-John Barker 8. Mind the Gap: A Couple Psychotherapist's Perspective Christopher Clulow 9. Born to Love, Driven to Destroy Felicity de Zulueta 10. The Myth of Normal Chris Oakley 11. The Shifting Landscape of Sexual Normality Dany Nobus 12. When Simply Being Human is Abnormal Stephen Setterberg 13. Why Would I Want to be Normal? Lennox K. Thomas 14. The Problem of Words. It's Why We Are All Mad! Phil Mollon 15. Negotiating the Normal Ann Shearer 16. Flourishing: The Normal Psychotherapist Versus the Healthy Psychotherapist Brett Kahr 17. Cultural Schizophrenia and Internalized Racism is Not Normal Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga 18. Norms and Normality? A Socio-psychoanalytic Approach Stephen Seligman 19. In the Therapy Room All Patients are Normal? Valerie Sinason 20. Future Flat-packed or Future Fluid: Why Normal is the Problem Roz Carroll References Index
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