Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy: Immoral Individualism

By Elizabeth A. Throop

Book Overview

A lively indictment of American culture's pervasive use of the psychotherapeutic metaphor to explain behaviours, a habit that has crossed the Atlantic in recent years, arguing that psychotherapy and excessive individualism has only ensured the continuance of social problems.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230609457
• ISBN13: 9780230609457
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"