How to Survive Without Psychotherapy

First published in 1996 by Constable and Company.

List of contents

Preface , The Treatment of Distress: Current Approaches , The Experience of Distress , The Tyranny of ‘Normality’ , Troublesome Worlds – People and Power , What Should We Do? Moral Demands , What Can We Do? The Problem of Will Power , What Could We Do? Learning and Change

About the author

David Smail

Summary

This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the 'treatment' of mental illness.

Product details

• Authors: David Smail, Smail David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367103439
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10343-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis