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Informationen zum Autor Paul Moloney is a Counselling Psychologist with experience in community and social work, an associate lecturer with the Open University and the University of Birmingham, and a founder member of the Midlands Psychology Group, which is dedicated to questioning the assumptions of official psychology. He is the author of The Therapy Industry (Pluto, 2013). Klappentext A practical guide to the growing influence of women on parliamentary legislation across the Commonwealth, and includes a study of how women's rights are promoted. Paul Moloney has written a brilliant and erudite book that might help us see through the mystifying fog of ideas in our present culture that leads us to seek individual therapy and self-help as cures for our ills, rather than people focusing on changing the main causes of distress in the C21st and getting together to create a society that is less damaging to us all. -- Dr Guy Holmes, Clinical Psychologist To date The Therapy Industry is the most comprehensive, accessible and best-documented critique available of the whole theory and practice of psychological therapy. Indispensable. -- David Smail, author of 'Taking Care: An Alternative to Therapy' This book combines intellectual acuity, a well-developed political sensitivity and a comprehensive grasp of the literature with an experienced clinician's tacit knowledge, wisdom and insight. Reading it may change how you think about psychology, about therapy, and perhaps even about yourself. -- Dr John Cromby, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Loughborough University Zusammenfassung Argues that therapeutic and applied psychology have little basis in science and that they prosper because they serve the interests of power. Introduction: The Light at the End of the Tunnel? PART ONE: Evaluating Psychological Techniques 1. Faith, fashion and mind cures 2. The psychopathology of everyday life 3. 'The CEO of Self' 4. Does Therapy Work? 5. 'I'm not ill, I'm hurt': the hidden injuries of social inequality PART TWO: Therapy in Society 6. Sweet Medicine - psychotherapy and psychology as control 7. IAPT - theory into policy 8. The Therapy Marketplace 9. Towards a psychology that embraces what the therapy industry ignores References Index ...
