Cultures of Healing: Correcting the Image of American Mental Health Care - Hardcover

Fancher, Robert T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0716723832 ISBN 13: 9780716723837

Verlag: W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

xi 342p hardback with blue dustjacket, excellent condition, name in ink to endpaper, otherwise as new, first edition

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor:

This work contends that while mental health care is legitimate, many of its claims to scientific truth and authority are not. Written by a practising psychotherapist, it argues that rather than operating as an objective science, the mental health profession is composed of competing "cultures" built around false ideology and subjective belief. This book provides a general history of mental health care in Americam and then analyzes four major schools of therapy - psychoanalysis, behaviourism, cognitive therapy and biological psychiatry - discussing the historical significance, general principles and methods of treatment, world view values and scientific status of each. It concludes with the author's assessment of how best to view mental health care and use it wisely and effectively. An appendix offers an insight into choosing a therapist.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0716723832
• ISBN 13: 9780716723837
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352