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- Published on: 2006-01-20
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About the Author
Lois Shawver, Ph.D. is an author, professor, licensed psychologist, and the host of an online community called "PMTH" which serves postmodern thinkers and therapists throughout the world. To read about this community, do an online search for "PMTH NEWS".
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How this book came to be written:
One day, my editor, Roy, dropped me an email asking me to write a blurb about myself for the "back matter" of this book. ("Back matter" is the common term for appendices, indices, etc., at the end of any book.)
Oh! At that moment it seemed like such a hard task, harder, it seemed, than writing the book.
"Try to get it to me," Roy continued, "by tomorrow."
I sank for a moment into self-conscious emptiness. "Who am I" I asked myself. So I got up and looked in the mirror, and this is what came to me.
The face that stared back at me from the mirror is not the part of me that wrote this book. The part that wrote this book was born, I think, when I was about four years old. I remember running in from a sandbox where I had been playing in the back yard. I was stopped by the closed porch screen, and I stood there with the gritty sand on my bare feet. Inside my mother was ironing and keeping an eye on me. "Mom," I said, and she looked up at me. It was in that moment that I famously told her, "There's sand in my name." She looked quizzical and then said, "Lois Ann, I don't know what you're talking about." I did not know how to explain it, so I walked away, and that was that. But you might understand if you repeat my childhood name, "Lois Ann." Say it quickly and blur the two names together. If you don't get it, add a "d" at the end and say it again. Hear the sand in my name?
When I was about ten, I shook the sand out of my name and started calling myself, "Lois." But, today, I stood in front of the mirror and decided it was this reflective consciousness that once marveled at the sand in my name that eventually wrote this book. Not the face in the mirror.
The reflective part of myself came alive in quiet times, often when I was alone, but it stayed mostly in the background until one day I signed up for a class in modern philosophy. I was an undergraduate, and on that day I found a dingy little classroom stuffed under a stairway in the college library. There were two short rows of students and not more than eight students altogether, all strangers, all tapping our fingers as we waited for our very tardy teacher, wondering what he would be like. Finally, a tornado presence hurried into the room very inappropriately, looking as though he was on his way to a high school prom with ruffled sky-blue shirt and a white cummerbund. Without a glance looking our way, Professor Fred Hagen began talking about Wittgenstein, a philosopher I had never heard of before. But, before long, this was my favorite class and I was soon in love, not so much with the strange teacher (although that, too, perhaps), but with Wittgenstein who came alive for me in these lectures. And my love affair with Wittgenstein's thoughts have continued ever since.
After I took a Ph.D. and became a clinical psychologist, these two parts of myself began to meld into one, not completely, but partly. Doing therapy, at least for me, was a kind of philosophical enterprise. And, after Wittgenstein, and the earlier discovery of sand in my name, I was thoroughly convinced that noticing language, the words, and how they worked to bring us together and push us apart, was the mysterious force that made our lives work - or not. What a wonder to become a therapist where I could watch people talk and listen to my heart's content.
But at the same time my career grew in other ways. I was given a position of head of a small budget for research practices in an institution. I taught graduate courses on therapy and on the history of psychology. And I became a frequent court expert on social issues, especially issues relating to sex or gender. I wrote and I published on all these things, while the Wittgensteinian part of my consciousness nestled quietly in the back of my mind.
It seems that would have been the end of it, just an ordinary ambitious lady, with a kooky love for this one philosopher, Wittgenstein. But then, everything changed and my inspiration to write and talk and explain grew stronger. It all happened the day I picked up the Postmodern Condition by Jean-Francois Lyotard. Oh! What an experience that was. You see, Lyotard, too, was inspired by Wittgenstein. Somehow sharing this belief in Wittgenstein was just too much and I became a student of Lyotard as much, perhaps, as I had been a student of Wittgenstein. That was about 1993.
Everything since then has been different for my reflective consciousness. These two authors together had the power to stimulate my creativity as I feel it had never been before. In many ways, this book is the fruit of my reflection from what I learned from my weaving together these two thinkers. I must say that I added other authors to my study during this period, especially Derrida, but also Donald Davidson, Lacan, and many others. For ten years now, I have funneled that inspiration into publishing articles and chapters, but finally, it was clear to me, that it was time to write a book.
So, that's the story of how I came to be the author of this book.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Shawver stretched my thinking
By Jeffrey T. Guterman
In this, the first volume of a projected trilogy, Shawver provides a most important book about postmodernism and therapy. Written in a very readable style which is void of unnecessary jargon, Shawver stretched my own thinking and challenged me to strive to become even more postmodern than I consider myself to already be. Shawver is a great storyteller. Personal tales and historical facts are weaved throughout the book in order to describe the shift from the modern to the postmodern era. In chapter one, Shawver demystifies the postmodern when she writes, "One doesn't need to know the word `postmodern' in order to be postmodern." I found chapter three to be a particularly valuable resource; here she describes the history of the concept of postmodernism and sets forth an etymology of the term postmodern. For therapists who are new to postmodernism, I personally recommend this book because it presents these important ideas within a historical context and in such a way that is accessible to readers of any clinical orientation. I also recommend this book to therapists who are familiar and experienced with this topic because it presents material that has not yet been revealed in Shawver's writings or elsewhere. I commend Lois Shawver for making such an important contribution to the field.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Waiting for parts 2 and 3
By Ludo Gielen
Even though I'm pretty familiar with postmodern discourses, I enjoyed very much reading Lois Shawver's book. She describes the serious limitations of modern research as a means to validate therapy and the history of therapy's love affair with "scientifically" grounded theories. And she already announces paralogy, a new kind of conversation between practitioners, as an alternative to research. In her book she also clarifies the history of postmodernism and the postmodern form of consciousness compared to the premodern and modern ways of thinking. And she also describes the different meanings and uses of the concept "postmodern" as well as why therapy is becoming more and more postmodern. I admire how she writes about intellectual matters in a no-nonsense, crystal-clear style with many concrete illustrations and I can hardly wait to read parts 2 (visionary postmodernism) and 3 (clinical postmodernism) of her trilogy. I recommend this book to everybody, not only to therapists but also to non-professionals and "to any reader who is interested in the intellectual bridges between philosophy and psychology and the practical issues of daily life", as Lynn Hoffman puts it.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Nostalgic Postmodernism: Let the Conversation Continue
By Joseph G. Pfeffer
The term "postmodern" means many things to many people. That is one of its virtues. Multiple meanings result in fruitful conversations. In her illuminating little book "Nostalgic Postmodernism," Lois Shawver takes as her starting point the elegant definition given by the late French philosopher Jacques Lyotard:
"Simplifying to the extreme," Lyotard wrote in his seminal work "The Postmodern Condition," published in English in 1984, "I define postmodernism as incredulity toward metanarratives." A metanarrative, Shawver tells us, is "a highly generalized, indeed universalized theory about everything everywhere."
"Think of a metanarrative," Shawver says, "as the central assumption that a person makes which is never itself questioned...the person 'totalizes' the metanarrative, making it seem more universal than it is."
"Science," Shawver says, "is often seen as the dominant metanarrative in modern times." She defines modernism as "a secular authority-based school of thought that spells out a doctrine for all its believers to embrace, and then polices its boundaries for any practitioner who strays too far from the position..." Not so different from pre-modern religious authoritarianism.
Shawver divides intellectual history into three schematic periods with much overlap. These are:
1. Premodernism, from the dawn of recorded time to 1750. Premodernity was characterized by magic and myth, and dominated by huge religious institutions. "Nothing was needed to validate these myths, nothing other than a lack of alternative explanation or the fact that someone once said something was true."
2. Modernism (1750-1950). The birth of modernism corresponds roughly with what has traditionally been called the Enlightenment, sometimes the age of reason. Its seminal figures were the Englishmen Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton and John Locke, and the Frenchman Rene Descartes. Modernism is characterized by its own kind of blind faith in the ability of human reason and science to create something like a perfect world.
3. Postmodernism (from 1950 on). "in postmodernism," according to Shawver, "all voices have some power in a network of ideas, and there is a continuous weaving and reweaving [intertextuality] of ideas, as to refresh understandings and keep them current and up to date. Thus the reader edits and revises understandings as more information and ideas flow through the airwaves." Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian-British philosopher of language, was a kind of avatar of postmodernism in the early 20'th century.
Shawver is writing specifically for psychotherapists. Oddly, postmodernism came late to psychology, long after it had influenced architecture, fine art, literature and evern politics. By "nostalgic postmodernism," Shawver means disillusion with modernist scientific confidence and certainty that has, she believes, afflicted members of the psychotherapeutic community. For roughly its first 75 years, therapy was held out as the cure to all psychological and emotional ills. All we has to do was "test" it by the scientific methos and we would arrive at the new Utopia. There were hundreds of "schools" of psychotherapy, led by psychoanalysis and its many offshoots, but also including behavior therapy. These schools would be tested against one another, and one of them would emerge triumphant.
This did not happen. Therapists became disillusioned. Most therapists, Shawver believes, became "eclectic," a term that had a strongly negative connotation until about 25 years ago. Shawver redefines eclectic to mean the way therapists take ideas and techniques from different therapies and filter them through their own personalities, talents and predilections. Each person develops unique theories and methods of therapy. Shawver does not go quite as far as Irvin Yalom, who has said the therapist reinvents therapy with every session. But there is something of Yalom's spirit in her approach. It is these therapists whom she calls postmodern. In a striking metaphor, she compares the postmodern psychotherapist to "improvisational jazz musicians."
For Lois Shawver, conversation is key to the "postmodern turn." She believes deeply in open-ended, tolerant, ongoing conversation among therapists and those interested in therapy. In these conversations, no one tries to score points as in a debate. Rather, people continually enrich each other and learn from one another as they engage in the conversation. She calls this "paralogy."
"What is important," Shawver sums up, "is not agreement, but to create a context in which we can learn from each other without needing to become each other's theoretical clone."
"Nostalgic Postmodernism" is the first volume of a projected trilogy. The second volume will be called "Visionary Postmodernism." This will be followd by "Clinical Postmodernism," where Shawver will get down to the practical business of what a postmodern therapeutic practice might actually look like.
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