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The Therapy Industry : The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure, and Why It Doesn't Work.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849648776
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Therapy IndustryDDC classification:
  • 616.89/1
LOC classification:
  • RC480 .M645 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Argues that therapeutic and applied psychology have little basis in science and that they prosper because they serve the interests of power.
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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.

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