Health and Suffering in America: The Context and Content of Mental Health Care

ISBN-13: 9781138524729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 380 str.

Robert T. Fancher

Opis

An analysis of how America came to see various forms of suffering as "mental illness", arguing that social and historical dynamics, not scientific discovery, provided this notion. It critiques four cultures of therapy: psychoanalysis, behaviourism, cognitive therapy and biological therapy.

Spis treści

Introduction; One: Care As Culture; Two: Problems and Patients, 1844-1963; Three: The Faded Glory of Psychoanalysis; Four: Behaviorism’s Failed Imperialism; Five: The Middlebrow Land of Cognitive Therapy; Six: Biological Psychiatry’s Confusion of Tongues; Seven: Ancillary Minds:; Appendix: Implications for Choosing or Changing A Therapist

O autorze

Robert T. Fancher