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- catalog abstract "While the aims of mental health care are legitimate, many of its claims to scientific truth are not, asserts Robert T. Fancher, Ph. D., in his provocative new book. A practicing psychotherapist, Fancher argues that the mental health professions are composed of competing "cultures," each built around ideology and subjective belief. The authority we ascribe to them is misplaced precisely because it rests on false claims to scientific validity. Fancher contends that the teachings of the mental health professions are not facts about nature, but rather social and moral recommendations. Thus, we need to evaluate them in the style of social and cultural critics, keeping in mind how substantially "cultures of healing" differ from our ordinary concept of mental health care. Cultures of Healing provides a general history of mental health care in America, then evaluates four major schools of therapy - psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive therapy, and biological psychiatry - discussing the historical significance, general principles and methods of treatment, values, and scientific status of each. Concluding with an assessment of how best to view mental health care and use it wisely and effectively, Fancher offers a new way of understanding the place of mental health care in our society.".
- catalog contributor b7643202.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Care as culture -- Problems and patients, 1844-1963 -- The faded glory of psychoanalysis -- Behaviorism's failed imperialism -- The middlebrow land of cognitive therapy -- Biological psychiatry's confusion of tongues -- Ancillary minds: from authority to resource.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-350) and index.".
- catalog description "While the aims of mental health care are legitimate, many of its claims to scientific truth are not, asserts Robert T. Fancher, Ph. D., in his provocative new book. A practicing psychotherapist, Fancher argues that the mental health professions are composed of competing "cultures," each built around ideology and subjective belief. The authority we ascribe to them is misplaced precisely because it rests on false claims to scientific validity. Fancher contends that the teachings of the mental health professions are not facts about nature, but rather social and moral recommendations. Thus, we need to evaluate them in the style of social and cultural critics, keeping in mind how substantially "cultures of healing" differ from our ordinary concept of mental health care. Cultures of Healing provides a general history of mental health care in America, then evaluates four major schools of therapy - psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive therapy, and biological psychiatry - discussing the historical significance, general principles and methods of treatment, values, and scientific status of each. Concluding with an assessment of how best to view mental health care and use it wisely and effectively, Fancher offers a new way of understanding the place of mental health care in our society.".
- catalog extent "xi, 355 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0716723832 (hbk.)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.H. Freeman,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "1995 D-283".
- catalog subject "616.89/001 20".
- catalog subject "Behaviorism United States.".
- catalog subject "Behaviorism.".
- catalog subject "Biological Psychiatry.".
- catalog subject "Cognitive Therapy.".
- catalog subject "Cultural psychiatry.".
- catalog subject "Mental Health.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry United States Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry United States.".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysis United States.".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalytic Theory.".
- catalog subject "Psychotherapy Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Psychotherapy United States.".
- catalog subject "RC437.5 .F335 1995".
- catalog subject "WM 100 F199c 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Care as culture -- Problems and patients, 1844-1963 -- The faded glory of psychoanalysis -- Behaviorism's failed imperialism -- The middlebrow land of cognitive therapy -- Biological psychiatry's confusion of tongues -- Ancillary minds: from authority to resource.".
- catalog title "Cultures of healing : correcting the image of American mental health care / Robert T. Fancher.".
- catalog type "text".