A. Rossiter, The professional is political: An interpretation of the problem of the past in solution-focused therapy, AM J ORTHOP, 70(2), 2000, pp. 150-161
This paper proposes that therapists subject their work to radical doubt des
igned to uncover and interpret the micropolitics that inhere in professiona
l knowledge and practice, Using Orlie's notion of trespass, the approach to
the past employed by solution-focused therapies is examined. These trespas
ses involve the therapy's silence about the meaning of injustice; its role
in relation to social movements; and ifs potential to reproduce relations o
f domination. A ne-ru conception of ethics is proposed that takes into acco
unt flu! inevitable presence of the political as it fashions the history th
at conditions us as human beings.