The Political Self

Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness
Herausgeber: Tweedy, Roderick

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and wellbeing, and how modern neuroscientific and psychodynamic research can both contribute to and enrich our understanding of these wider discussions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781782204091
• ISBN-10: 1782204091
• Artikelnr.: 45640479

Autorenporträt

Tweedy, Rod

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
INTRODUCTION
Insight
Understanding the social context of individual distress
Power in the therapeutic relationship
Therapy in late capitalism
The selfish society: the current state of things
Divided brain, divided world
Outsight
Born to run: wounded leaders and boarding school survivors
On Killing: the psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society
A tangled web: internet pornography, sexual addiction, and the erosion of attachment
The corporation as a pathological institution
We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy
And the World's Getting Worse
APPENDIX Additional resources