Overview
- Offers a thought provoking critique of a the role of social clinic in American society
- Argues that the caring services offer the unrealized alternative to clinical treatment, capable of achieving greater personal adjustment as well as social and economic equality
- Asserts that the social clinic and its myths are collusive products of an entire society
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Other Practices of the Social Clinic
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Front Matter
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Clinic and Society
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book offers caring services as the unrealized alternative to clinical treatment, capable of achieving greater personal adjustment as well as social and economic equality. It will appeal to readers with an interest in social welfare, public policy, and public administration, as well as to students and scholars of psychotherapy, counseling, social work, rehabilitation, and community psychology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychotherapy and the Social Clinic in the United States
Book Subtitle: Soothing Fictions
Authors: William M. Epstein
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32750-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32749-1Published: 17 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32752-1Published: 17 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32750-7Published: 07 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 361
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Critical Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Policy, Community and Environmental Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Public Policy