Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:56:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lois Shawver <rathbone-AT-crl.com>
Subject: Postmodern Therapies list



I want to tell you about an active new list that I have developed to see if 
anyone here would find this list right for them.

The list is called "Postmodern Therapies" and it is PMTH for short.  It 
is a list for professional therapists, graduate students and academics or 
independent scholars with a publication interest in therapy.  The 
subscribers are limited in this way because I pay for this list out of my 
pocket and if I reach 300 (there are 79 active members joining in about 
one month), I will have to pay much more.  In order to join, you need to 
write me personally at:
rathbone-AT-california.com
and tell me how you fit into the categories I have described. 

As far as I can tell, there are no Deleuze and Guattari readers on the 
list.  Most everyone, however, is somewhat familiar with Lyotard and 
Wittgenstein.  There is an ongoing reading, in fact, of Wittgenstein's 
Philosohical Investigations.  There is some familiarity with Derrida and 
more with Foucault.

The therapy schools that are represented are primarily Collaborative 
Language Systems (Harry Goolishian and Harlene Anderson), Solution 
Focused Therapy (Steve de Shazer), and Narrative Therapy (Michel White 
and David Epston).  There are also some, like myself, who identify is 
postmodern psychoanalysts when postmodernism is defined by Lyotard.

Interested?

If you're not sure and want to check it out more, you might try looking 
at a newsletter that, for the moment at least, I am publishing each day.  
It includes summaries of converations on the list, news of related 
websites, links to summaries and paraphrases to articles, together with 
full-text of articles.  It is called "PMTH Weekly."  You can reach it at:

<http://www.california.com/~rathbone/pmth.htm>

Whatever you do, please do not try to reach me at the above address.  I 
access it only every week or so.  If you decide to write me, please do 
so, again, at:

rathbone-AT-california.com

Regards,
..Lois Shawver