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Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012.

The myth of psychotherapy : mental healing as religion, rhetoric, and repression / Thomas Szasz. - 1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages)

Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Myth of psychotherapy: metaphorizing medical treatment -- Persuading persons: rhetoric as remedy -- Curing souls: religion as remedy -- Franz Anton Mesmer: metaphorizing magnetism -- Johann Christian Heinroth: repression as remedy -- Wilhelm Erb, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, and Sigmund Freud: electrical treatment -- Psychoanalytic movement: franchising the Freudian faith -- Psychoanalysis as base rhetoric: Oedipus, from Rex to complex -- Sigmund Freud: the Jewish avenger -- Carl Gustav Jung: pastor without a pulpit -- Psychotherapy: medicine, religion, and power -- Psychotherapy and language: contemporary uses and abuses.

ISBN: 9780815603139 0815603134

Source: 599CC37E-90EB-4CCC-A1DD-9072CF2E23EE OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Psychotherapy--Philosophy.
Psychotherapy--History.
Political psychology.
Psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy
Psychologie politique.
Psychothérapie--Philosophie.
Psychothérapie--Histoire.
Psychothérapie.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.
MEDICAL--Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL--Diseases.
MEDICAL--Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL--Internal Medicine.
Political psychology
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy--Philosophy

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History

LC Class. No.: RC480.5 / .S94 1988eb

Dewey Class. No.: 616.89/14/01