The Nature of Unhappiness, containing The Origins of Unhappiness, and How to Survive without Psychotherapy
David Smail
ISBN: | 9781841193502 |
Publisher: | Robinson Publishing M/D |
Published: | 20 April, 2001 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
The Nature of Unhappiness, containing The Origins of Unhappiness, and How to Survive without Psychotherapy
David Smail
David Smail's titles work to a central theme - that psychological distress arises not from illness or personal failure, but as a response to damaging influences from the outside world. He believes that such distress can be tackled far more effectively by social than by therapeutic procedures. He examines how the dominant values of society and politics can have devastating effects on the individual, and consequently that counsellors and therapists can have limited success in treating such problems - that in fact it is the circumstances and not the individual, that need to be altered.
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