Robert T. Fancher

Health and Suffering in America

The Context and Content of Mental Health Care

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780765805447
• ISBN-10: 0765805448
• Artikelnr.: 22308472

Autorenporträt

Robert T. Fancher

Inhaltsangabe

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