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Beschreibung

This book offers a compelling critical analysis of American society by examining the role of psychotherapy within social policy and the culture that has fashioned it. It takes a deeply critical look at ¿the social clinic,¿ defined here as a ubiquitous organizational arrangement that includes clinical and community psychology, counseling, clinical social work, psychiatry, much of the self-help industry, complementary and alternative medicine and others. Epstein¿s analysis concludes that the social clinic lacks credible evidence of effectiveness and its continued popularity expresses popular but predatory American values such as romantic individualism, the triumph of the subjective, a sense of personal and political chosenness, persistent bigotry, and a preference for tribal as opposed to civic identities. This careful examination of American society through the lens of psychotherapeutic practice characterizes the social clinic as a soothing fiction of the United States.

The book offers caring services as the unrealized alternative to clinical treatment, capable of achieving greater personal adjustment as well as social and economic equality. It will appeal to readers with an interest in social welfare, public policy, and public administration, as well as to students and scholars of psychotherapy, counseling, social work, rehabilitation, and community psychology.

Über den Autor

William M. Epstein was Professor of Social Work at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA until his retirement in 2019. He is the author of The Masses are the Ruling Classes (2017), Empowerment as Ceremony New (2013), and Democracy without Decency: Good Citizenship and the War on Poverty (2010).

Zusammenfassung

Offers a thought provoking critique of a the role of social clinic in American society

Argues that the caring services offer the unrealized alternative to clinical treatment, capable of achieving greater personal adjustment as well as social and economic equality

Asserts that the social clinic and its myths are collusive products of an entire society

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Psychotherapy.- Chapter 2. Psychotherapy and Tests of Effectiveness.- Chapter 3. Psychotherapy for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.- Chapter 4. Psychotherapy for Depression and Addiction.- Chapter 5. Psychotherapy and Society.- Part II. Clinical Social Work.- Chapter 6. Precursors to Modern Social Work.- Chapter 7. Contemporary Social Work and the Social Clinic.- Chapter 8. Clinical Social Work in Child Foster Care, Family Preservation, and Schools.- Part III. Other Practices of the Social Clinic.- Chapter 9. Community Psychological Practice and a Note on Rehabilitation in Corrections.- Chapter 10. Mind and Spirit on the Fringes of the Social Clinic.- Chapter 11. Soothing Fictions.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Theoretische Psychologie
Genre:	Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik , Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xxxi 361 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 361 p. 1 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783030327491
ISBN-10:	3030327493
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Epstein, William M.
Auflage:	1st edition 2019
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	William M. Epstein
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.12.2019
Gewicht:	0,623 kg

Artikel-ID: 117366290