1st Edition

Taking Care An Alternative to Therapy

By David Smail Copyright 1987
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Taking Care established the author as an important social and political analyst whose background happened to be in clinical psychology. In this work the author develops the analysis of mental illness, and psychology in general, in the contexts of society, power and interest. People's experience is embodied in the world in which they exist. Notwithstanding the claims of some, psychology cannot,... Read more
New Preface -- Introduction -- Dreaming and Wishing: The Individual and Society -- The Pursuit of Happiness -- Magic, Interest and Psychology -- Faults and Reasons -- Change: The Limits of Therapy -- ‘Relationships’ -- Growing Up and Taking Care -- Morality and Moralism

Biography

Smail, David