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If excitement about postmodern and discursive therapies has recently waned, as editors Tom Strong and David Paré suggest, perhaps this is because, for the most part, these therapies are all talk! This is, paradoxically, their strength relative to mainstream modernist therapies and their limitation relative to what is needed if we human beings are to transform our emotionality so as to prevent our killing ourselves off (whether quickly or painfully slowly).
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Holzman, L., Newman, F., Strong, T. (2004). Power, Authority, and Pointless Activity. In: Strong, T., Paré, D. (eds) Furthering Talk. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8975-8_5
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