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Against Therapy Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing

Paperback • 2024 • English

Against Therapy Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing

By Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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In the ground-breaking and highly controversial book, Against Therapy, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson launches a searing attack on the very foundations of modern psychotherapy, examining figures from Freud and Jung to Fritz Perls and Carl Rogers. With passion and clarity, Masson addresses the profession's core weaknesses. He contends that because therapy fundamentally aims to change people according to the therapist's own notions and prejudices, the entire psychological process is necessarily corrupt...Show more

Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints
Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
Psychology of ageing

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9781961689053

Publisher

Histria Books

Published year

2024

Language

English

Original title

Against Therapy Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing

Format

Paperback

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