Trauma, Pedagogy, and the College Mental Health Crisis - Hysteria, Narcissism, and the Repression of Psychoanalysis

Trauma, Pedagogy, and the College Mental Health Crisis argues that psychoanalytic theory and practice offers a solution to the large increase in students seeking mental health services.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Misdiagnosing Students 3. The Past and Present of Trauma-Informed Teaching 4. Coddling Trauma: The Center-Right Turns to CBT 5. CBT as the False Answer to the Student Mental Health Crisis 6. Bad Therapy, Trauma, and Anti-Psychoanalytic Psychoanalysis 7. The University as a False Family 8. Fixing the College Mental Health Crisis

About the author

Robert Samuels holds doctorates in psychoanalysis and English and teaches advanced writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of 25 books, including Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession: Prestige TV and the Contradictions of the “Liberal” Class and Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University (both Routledge).

Summary

Trauma, Pedagogy, and the College Mental Health Crisis argues that psychoanalytic theory and practice offers a solution to the large increase in students seeking mental health services.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Samuels, Robert (Uc Santa Barbara Samuels
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032899923
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289992-3
• No. of pages: 150
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; SELF-HELP / Anxieties & Phobias, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Psychotherapy, Coping with anxiety & phobias, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, Coping with / advice about anxiety and phobias, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis