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House of cards : psychology and psychotherapy built on myth / Robyn M. Dawes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Free Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1994Edition: First paperback editionDescription: xi, 338 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0684830914
  • 9780684830919
  • 0029072050
  • 9780029072059
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.891401 20
LOC classification:
  • RC480.5 .D38 1996
Contents:
Part I. The Claims of the Mental Health Experts Versus the Evidence -- Part II. Impact on Our Cultural Beliefs -- --
Part I. The Claims of the Mental Health Experts Versus the Evidence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Psychotherapy: The Myth of Expertise -- 3. Prediction and Diagnosis: More Myths of Expertise -- 4. Experience: The Myth of Expanding Expertise -- 5. Licensing: The Myth of Protecting the Public -- 6. A Plethora of Experts and What to Do About Them -- 7. Why the Myths Are Believed -- -- Part II. Impact on Our Cultural Beliefs -- 8. New Age Psychology -- 9. Paternalistic Put-Downs: Clients as Slaves to Therapists, and the Rest of Us as Slaves to Our Feelings -- 10. Autonomy and Advice.
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Originally published: New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The Claims of the Mental Health Experts Versus the Evidence -- Part II. Impact on Our Cultural Beliefs -- --

Part I. The Claims of the Mental Health Experts Versus the Evidence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Psychotherapy: The Myth of Expertise -- 3. Prediction and Diagnosis: More Myths of Expertise -- 4. Experience: The Myth of Expanding Expertise -- 5. Licensing: The Myth of Protecting the Public -- 6. A Plethora of Experts and What to Do About Them -- 7. Why the Myths Are Believed -- -- Part II. Impact on Our Cultural Beliefs -- 8. New Age Psychology -- 9. Paternalistic Put-Downs: Clients as Slaves to Therapists, and the Rest of Us as Slaves to Our Feelings -- 10. Autonomy and Advice.

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