1st Edition
Health and Suffering in America The Context and Content of Mental Health Care
By Robert T. Fancher
Copyright 2003
380 Pages
by
Routledge
380 Pages
by
Routledge
380 Pages
by
Routledge
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Health and Suffering in America analyzes how we came to see various forms of suffering as "mental illness," and argues that social and historical dynamics, not scientific discovery, gave us this notion. Robert Fancher argues that the beliefs of mental health professionals have less to do with science than with the professions' own values and ideologies. The image we have of mental health care... Read more
Introduction; One: Care As Culture; Two: Problems and Patients, 1844-1963; Three: The Faded Glory of Psychoanalysis; Four: Behaviorism’s Failed Imperialism; Five: The Middlebrow Land of Cognitive Therapy; Six: Biological Psychiatry’s Confusion of Tongues; Seven: Ancillary Minds:; Appendix: Implications for Choosing or Changing A Therapist
Biography
Robert T. Fancher
