Trick Or Treatment: How and when Psychotherapy Fails

Trick Or Treatment: How and when Psychotherapy Fails
ISBN-10
0878220526
ISBN-13
9780878220526
Category
Psychology / Psychotherapy / General
Pages
201
Language
English
Published
1970
Publisher
Research Press
Author
Richard B. Stuart

Description

This book asserts that present theories and procedures for dealing with "mental illness" not only fail to cure patients in many cases, but often actually aggravate the presenting problem. It is not a diatribe, but a carefully reasoned argument citing hundreds of research studies and articles from professional pbulications. Stuart indicts our present systems for diagnosing and classifying mental disturbances, and our procedures for institutionalizing patients. Specific treatment methods are criticized, and case histories are cited. The author suggests that operant conditioning and related methodologies hold the greatest promise for the future.

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