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The myth of psychotherapy : mental healing as religion, rhetoric, and repression / Thomas Szasz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, (c)1988.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780815603139
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RC480 .M984 1988
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Contents:
Persuading persons: rhetoric as remedy -- Curing souls: religion as remedy -- Franz Anton Mesmer: metaphorizing magnetism -- Johann Christian Heinroth: repression as remedy -- Wilhelm Erb, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, and Sigmund Freud: electrical treatment -- Psychoanalytic movement: franchising the Freudian faith -- Psychoanalysis as base rhetoric: Oedipus, from Rex to complex -- Sigmund Freud: the Jewish avenger -- Carl Gustav Jung: pastor without a pulpit -- Psychotherapy: medicine, religion, and power -- Psychotherapy and language: contemporary uses and abuses.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction RC480.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn930104233

Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Myth of psychotherapy: metaphorizing medical treatment -- Persuading persons: rhetoric as remedy -- Curing souls: religion as remedy -- Franz Anton Mesmer: metaphorizing magnetism -- Johann Christian Heinroth: repression as remedy -- Wilhelm Erb, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, and Sigmund Freud: electrical treatment -- Psychoanalytic movement: franchising the Freudian faith -- Psychoanalysis as base rhetoric: Oedipus, from Rex to complex -- Sigmund Freud: the Jewish avenger -- Carl Gustav Jung: pastor without a pulpit -- Psychotherapy: medicine, religion, and power -- Psychotherapy and language: contemporary uses and abuses.

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