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Informationen zum Autor David Pilgrim is Honorary Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool, UK and Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Southampton. After training and working as a clinical psychologist he completed a PhD examining psychotherapy in the organisational setting of the British NHS. He then went on to complete a Master’s in sociology. He has worked at the boundary between clinical psychology and medical sociology for the past 20 years and has produced over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals, based upon his research into mental health policy and practice. His years working in the British NHS provided him with extensive everyday experience of the theoretical and policy aspects of mental health expressed in practical settings. One of his books, A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (3rd edition, Open University Press, 2005), co-authored with Anne Rogers, won the British Medical Association’s medical book of the year award for 2006. Currently he is writing a book on child sexual abuse and public policy. Klappentext Psychotherapy and Society examines the shared theoretical roots of the traditions of psychotherapy and social science and the application of wider sociological work to mental health. After discussing the points of convergence and divergence between psychotherapy and sociology, David Pilgrim concentrates on issues surrounding gender, class, race, age and professionalism. He also looks at: the different contexts of therapy; the professionalization of psychotherapy; and clients' experiences of psychotherapy Zusammenfassung After an initial discussion on the points of convergence and divergence between psychotherapy and sociology! the author concentrates on issues surrounding gender! class! race! age and professionalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Psychotherapy and Social Science Objectivism, Post-Structuralism and General Systems Theory Class Distinctions Women and Men Races Apart The Vagaries of Age The Contexts of Therapy Watching the Professionals Ordinary People and Patient Survivors ...
