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4 pages in length. The foundation of Andersen's postmodern collaborative approach in Conversation Language and Possibilities: A Postmodern Approach to Therapy is instilling a basis of communication between patient and therapist; in times previous, counselors upheld a wholly superior position when it came to the dynamics of this two-person relationship, an approach that precluded any true sense of connectedness between therapist and patient. No additional sources cited.
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therapist; in times previous, counselors upheld a wholly superior position when it came to the dynamics of this two-person relationship, an approach that precluded any true sense of connectedness between
therapist and patient. According to Andersen, the collaborative approach represents: "...A language system and a linguistic event in which people are engaged in a collaborative relationship and conversations
- a mutual endeavor toward possibility" (Andersen 2). Andersen illustrates how sometimes there is a disparity - either perceived or cultivated - between counselor and client, which can lead
to a sense of inequality on the clients part. There are a number of issues that serve to impede communication from the outset; to infuse this imbalance with further
separation makes it quite easy to understand the inherent difficulties to achieving therapeutic success where a powerbase comes into play. By the authors own admission, modernism did not support the
manner by which she sought to convey experiences; rather, she looked upon this particular mode of expression as being wholly void of the fundamental components which she deemed necessary to
articulate these experiences. Postmodern thought, by stark contrast, represented the breaking free of certain social, political and economic strangulation that decreed all followers must abide by the same doctrines.
Post-modernisms discursive system was a reaction to and critique of modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classification. The
influence of modernisms political and aesthetic projects of resistance and revolution, recooperation and universalism all played an integral role within the ultimate rise of the post-modernism movement, which encompassed the
broad and far-reaching aspects of art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, politics, communications, fashion, and technology. This, thought Andersen, is precisely where she could draw upon the liberating elements
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