The medicalization of psychotherapy : practicing under the influence /

Olney, Sylvia, 1954- ,

The medicalization of psychotherapy : practicing under the influence / Sylvia Olney. - Lanham : Lexington Books, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xxviii, 207 pages)



Ethnopsychiatry and human awareness -- The heart and soul of the matter -- Attempts at explanation -- Getting by with a little help -- Seeing through a glass darkly -- Getting real -- Making meaning out of madness -- Lower than angels.

This book is an ethnographic account of the practice of clinical psychology under the auspices of the reductionism of biomedicine. Sylvia Olney uses Peircean linguistic analyses to naturalize consciousness by validating the dimensions of mind and intention to restore psychotherapy to its place as a significant healing art.



9780739197035

2020738624


Psychotherapy.
Psychotropic drugs.
Psychotherapy.
Medicalization.
Mental Disorders--drug therapy.
Psychotropic Drugs.


Electronic Books.

RC480 / .M435 2015