About this Book

Nostalgic Postmodernism is a paperback, 144 pages long, with 239 references.  It includes a subject and a name index.   You can, therefore, read and study the book as a scholarly text -- but as you can see from excerpts, it is written in a popular and personal style, author to reader, with reflections on the author's long practice (since 1976) as well as on her conversations with other therapists whom she considers postmodern.

The book begins with a chapter that portrays a postmodern therapist in a fictionalized example.  That first chapter is followed by an account of the west meant to clarify why western postmodernism is more than a minor phase in the course of history.   The third chapter gives you the story of the term and concept "postmodern" as well as its evolution.  After reading that third chapter you should feel confident talking with people who define the term in a different way.  The final chapter describes the history of therapy as it relates to the postmodernization of therapy.  Each chapter is surrounded by a personal commentary on how that chapter came to be written.

The author of Nostalgic Postmodernism is a clinical psychologist who has long worked as a therapist (since 1976).  While this is her second book, it is her first book on postmodern therapy.  A list of chapters she has written for other books, as well as articles she has published in journals on the topic of  postmodern therapy, is provided through the tab above called "resources".

Please watch for subsequent volumes.  Nostalgic Postmodernism is the first book in a trilogy.  If you read and like Nostalgic Postmodernism, click here to get announcements of the next two volumes.