Beyond Critique: Composition and Curiosity in Therapy

Chris Hoff and Justine D’Arrigo are family therapy practitioners and scholars who often collaborate on academic projects that trouble mainstream psychotherapy ideas and practices. In particular, they are exploring how critically- and politically- oriented therapists, counselors, and social workers might maintain the link to the small, rather than being pushed further into structuralist definitions of problems and people. In this book, emerging, Justine & Chris expand and reinvigorate curiosity by spotlighting the work of Bruno Latour and Ana Louise Keating, who draws on foundational concepts from Gloria Anzaldúa. Their emerging work serves as a pathway beyond deconstruction, reduction, and the potential limitations of identity politics—towards what they are calling a compositionist therapy.