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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811014703321

Autore

Smail D. J (David John)

Titolo

Taking care : an alternative to therapy / / David Smail

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-91977-8

0-429-90554-8

0-429-48077-6

1-78241-393-6

Edizione

[1st]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/1425

Soggetti

Stress (Psychology)

Stress (Physiology)

Anxiety

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: London: Dent, 1987.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Contents; New Preface; Introduction; 1. Dreaming and Wishing: The Individual and Society; 2. The Pursuit of Happiness; 3. Magic, Interest and Psychology; 4. Faults and Reasons; 5. Change: The Limits of Therapy; 6. 'Relationships'; 7. Growing Up and Taking Care; 8. Morality and Moralism; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Taking Care established David Smail as an important social and political analyst whose background happened to be in clinical psychology. In this work he 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, in the same way that magic cannot, change the nature of that experience fundamentally. At best, psychotherapy might provide a degree of understanding about that limitation. The historical relationship between ps