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Psychotherapy and the Social Clinic in the United States: Soothing Fictions

Psychotherapy and the Social Clinic in the United States: Soothing Fictions

Epstein, William M.

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 3030327493
ISBN13: 9783030327491
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Dec 17 2019
Pages: 361
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book offers a compelling critical analysis of American society by examining the role of psychotherapy within social policy and the culture that has fashioned it. It takes a deeply critical look at 'the social clinic, ' defined here as a ubiquitous organizational arrangement that includes clinical and community psychology, counseling, clinical social work, psychiatry, much of the self-help industry, complementary and alternative medicine and others. Epstein's analysis concludes that the social clinic lacks credible evidence of effectiveness and its continued popularity expresses popular but predatory American values such as romantic individualism, the triumph of the subjective, a sense of personal and political chosenness, persistent bigotry, and a preference for tribal as opposed to civic identities. This careful examination of American society through the lens of psychotherapeutic practice characterizes the social clinic as a soothing fiction of the United States.

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