Editorial Sounding: Auditing Culture

Kilroy, Peter; Bailey, Rowan; Chare, Nicholas

doi:10.1080/1353464042000208477

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“…I have been waging a relentless campaign against the audit culture in several different spheres (for example, education and therapy) since the late 1990s, drawing in particular on the kinds of critiques set out in Mick Power's seminal 1990s texts (Power, 1999; see also Cooper, 2001;Kilroy et al, 2004). There are at last welcome signs that the audit culture and its control-obsessed practices are beginning to fall apart at the seams; yet I fi nd it surprising, and deeply concerning, that a forensically critical deconstructive sensibility has not been brought to the way in which the audit culture has infected the therapy world in all manner of ways -not least through the CBT/happiness agenda and the extraordinarily naïve 'outcomes' claims that have been made for the superiority of CBT-type approaches over other modalities (House and Loewenthal, in press).…”

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The dance of psychotherapy and politics

House

2008

Psychother. Politics Int.

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This paper presents a review of and commentary on the edited collection The Politics of Psychotherapy: New Perspectives. Certain chapters and themes are picked up and elaborated upon. The impact of modernist 'audit culture' values on therapy practice are then examined at length. The selective and partial nature of this review article should not mask the rich diversity that constitutes the psychotherapy/politics nexus, which this book admirably represents.

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Section: Discussion: Lacunae and Extensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%