The Therapy Industry : The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure, and Why It Doesn't Work.
Moloney, Paul.
The Therapy Industry : The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure, and Why It Doesn't Work. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (265 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Light at the End of the Tunnel? -- Part I: Evaluating Psychological Techniques -- 1. Misery, Mind Cures and Fashion -- 2. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life -- 3. The 'CEO of Self'...? -- 4. Does Therapy Work? -- 5. 'I'm not ill, I'm hurt...' - The Hidden Injuries of Inequality -- Part II: Therapy in Society -- 6. Sweet Medicine - Talking Therapy as Control -- 7. Theory into Practice - The Programme for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) -- 8. The Therapy Market - From the Third Wave to 'Happiness' -- 9. Towards a Psychology that Reflects what the Therapy Industry Will Not Tell Us -- Notes -- Index.
Argues that therapeutic and applied psychology have little basis in science and that they prosper because they serve the interests of power.
9781849648776
Psychotherapy.
Electronic books.
RC480 .M645 2013
616.89/1
The Therapy Industry : The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure, and Why It Doesn't Work. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (265 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Light at the End of the Tunnel? -- Part I: Evaluating Psychological Techniques -- 1. Misery, Mind Cures and Fashion -- 2. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life -- 3. The 'CEO of Self'...? -- 4. Does Therapy Work? -- 5. 'I'm not ill, I'm hurt...' - The Hidden Injuries of Inequality -- Part II: Therapy in Society -- 6. Sweet Medicine - Talking Therapy as Control -- 7. Theory into Practice - The Programme for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) -- 8. The Therapy Market - From the Third Wave to 'Happiness' -- 9. Towards a Psychology that Reflects what the Therapy Industry Will Not Tell Us -- Notes -- Index.
Argues that therapeutic and applied psychology have little basis in science and that they prosper because they serve the interests of power.
9781849648776
Psychotherapy.
Electronic books.
RC480 .M645 2013
616.89/1