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The medicalization of psychotherapy : practicing under the influence / Sylvia Olney

Author
Olney, Sylvia, 1954-
Published
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 207 pages)
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Contents
Ethnopsychiatry and human awareness -- The heart and soul of the matter -- Attempts at explanation -- Getting by with a little help -- Seeing through a glass darkly -- Getting real -- Making meaning out of madness -- Lower than angels.
Summary
This book is an ethnographic account of the practice of clinical psychology under the auspices of the reductionism of biomedicine. Sylvia Olney uses Peircean linguistic analyses to naturalize consciousness by validating the dimensions of mind and intention to restore psychotherapy to its place as a significant healing art.
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ISBN
9780739197035 ebook
0739197037
9780739197028 cloth : alk. paper
0739197029 cloth : alk. paper
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 187-191) and index.
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