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Autore: |
Smail D. J (David John)
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Titolo: |
Taking care : an alternative to therapy / / David Smail
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Pubblicazione: | London : , : Routledge, , 2018 |
Edizione: | 1st |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (178 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616.89/1425 |
Soggetto topico: | Stress (Psychology) |
Stress (Physiology) | |
Anxiety | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Taking care ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-429-90554-8 |
0-429-48077-6 | |
1-78241-393-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910461760303321 |
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