The myth of psychotherapy : mental healing as religion, rhetoric, and repression /
Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012.
The myth of psychotherapy : mental healing as religion, rhetoric, and repression / Thomas Szasz. - Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, (c)1988. - 1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages)
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.
9780815603139
Psychotherapy--Philosophy.
Psychotherapy--History.
Political psychology.
Psychotherapy.
Electronic Books.
RC480 / .M984 1988
The myth of psychotherapy : mental healing as religion, rhetoric, and repression / Thomas Szasz. - Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, (c)1988. - 1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages)
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.
9780815603139
Psychotherapy--Philosophy.
Psychotherapy--History.
Political psychology.
Psychotherapy.
Electronic Books.
RC480 / .M984 1988