James T. Hansen

Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture

Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling and Psychotherapy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture critiques the objectification of clients and concomitant abandonment of meaning systems that characterize contemporary counseling and psychotherapy. Hansen provides a scholarly overview of trends in talk therapy through a cultural, historical, empirical, and philosophical examination of mental health care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781498516303
• ISBN-10: 1498516300
• Artikelnr.: 44213723

Autorenporträt

By James T. Hansen

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Meaning Systems and
Psychological Suffering Chapter 2: Conceptualizations of Meaning System
Chapter 3: Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture Chapter 4:
Contemporary Culture and Objectification Chapter 5: Training for Talk
Therapists Summary and Further Reflections References