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Olney, Sylvia, 1954-

The medicalization of psychotherapy : practicing under the influence / Sylvia Olney. - 1 online resource (xxviii, 207 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (page 187-191) and index.

Ethnopsychiatry and human awareness -- The heart and soul of the matter -- Attempts at explanation -- Getting by with a little help -- Seeing through a glass darkly -- Getting real -- Making meaning out of madness -- Lower than angels.

This book is an ethnographic account of the practice of clinical psychology under the auspices of the reductionism of biomedicine. Sylvia Olney uses Peircean linguistic analyses to naturalize consciousness by validating the dimensions of mind and intention to restore psychotherapy to its place as a significant healing art.

ISBN: 9780739197035 0739197037

LCCN: 2020738624

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Psychotherapy.
Psychotropic drugs.
Medicalization.
Psychotherapy
Medicalization
Mental Disorders--drug therapy
Psychotropic Drugs
Psychotropes.
Psychothérapie.
Médicalisation.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.
MEDICAL--Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL--Diseases.
MEDICAL--Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL--Internal Medicine.
Mental illness--Treatment
Psychotherapy

LC Class. No.: RC480.5

Dewey Class. No.: 616.89/14

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WM 420