The Value of Psychotherapy: The Talking Cure in an Age of Clinical Science

by Robert L. Woolfolk

Book Overview

From a seasoned scholar, clinician, and teacher, this lively, highly readable text probes where the field of psychotherapy is now and where it may be headed in the future. Robert L. Woolfolk explores commonalities and differences among major therapeutic approaches, as well as their philosophical underpinnings. He critiques the growing medicalization of mental health care--in particular, the attempt to fit psychotherapy to the templates of evidence-based...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1462521908
• ISBN13: 9781462521906
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"