Psychotherapy, American culture, and social policy [electronic resource] : immoral individualism / Elizabeth A. Throop.
2009
HM1276 .T49 2009eb
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Title
Psychotherapy, American culture, and social policy [electronic resource] : immoral individualism / Elizabeth A. Throop.
Author
Throop, Elizabeth A., 1958-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780230618350 ((electronic bk.)
0230609457
9780230609457
0230609457
9780230609457
Publication Details
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 192 p.) ; 22 cm.
Call Number
HM1276 .T49 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.5/40973
Summary
"Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy provides a lively indictment of psychotherapy and individualism by examining American cultural structures - child-rearing, family life, mental illness, and education. Throop advances a complex argument that American reliance on psychotherapy to explain these structures is a poor justification which neglects those most in need and pain. Both interdisciplinary and solidly anthropological, this study is sure to provoke discussion from both the right and the left and cause serious consideration of Throop's call for cultural change and just social policies."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index.
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Series
Culture, mind, and society.
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Psychotherapy, American culture, and social policy.
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Table of Contents
American culture in cross-cultural context
Psychotherapy and hyperindividualism
Poverty is just a state of mind
The kids aren't all right
Those who can't teach
The sacrifice of our children
Still crazy after all these years
Color blind hearts and minds
Conclusion.
Psychotherapy and hyperindividualism
Poverty is just a state of mind
The kids aren't all right
Those who can't teach
The sacrifice of our children
Still crazy after all these years
Color blind hearts and minds
Conclusion.