Cultures Of Healing: Correcting The Image Of American Mental Health Care
By Unknown Author.
Description
This work contends that while mental health care is legitimate, many of its claims to scientific truth and authority are not. Written by a practising psychotherapist, it argues that rather than operating as an objective science, the mental health profession is composed of competing "cultures" built around false ideology and subjective belief. This book provides an analysis of how America came to see various forms of suffering as "mental illness," arguing that social and historical dynamics, not scientific discovery, provided this notion. It critiques four cultures o...
ISBN(s)
0716730634, 9780716730637
