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Book The Medicalization of Psychotherapy

Download or read book The Medicalization of Psychotherapy written by Sylvia Olney and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ethnographic account of the practice of clinical psychology under the auspices of the reductionism of biomedicine. Sylvia Olney uses Peircean linguistic analyses to naturalize consciousness by validating the dimensions of mind and intention to restore psychotherapy to its place as a significant healing art.

Book The Medicalization of Psychotherapy

Download or read book The Medicalization of Psychotherapy written by Sylvia Olney and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medicalization of Psychotherapy: Practicing under the Influence is an ethnographic account of the practice of clinical psychology under the reductionist auspices of biomedicine. Using Peircean semiotic analysis focusing in particular on modes in meaning-making, Sylvia Olney proposes that consciousness should be accorded the same conceptual and value status as “nature” and the human body. This would resolve the psyche/soma split as mirrored both within and between the practice disciplines of medicine and psychotherapy, and could also free practitioners and client/patients from the idea of essential helplessness in the face of biology, a notion which happens to contribute to the vested interests of the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Given the advances of neuroscience and psychoneuroimmunology that support the recognition of force-like dimensions of mind and intention, The Medicalization of Psychotherapy helps to restore the practice of psychotherapy to the significant healing art it has actually been: the healing of consciousness.

Book Practicing Under the Influence

Download or read book Practicing Under the Influence written by Sylvia Herold Olney and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De Medicalizing Misery

Download or read book De Medicalizing Misery written by M. Rapley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. The book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human, not medical, experiences.

Book Medical Psychotherapy

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  • Author : Jessica Yakeley
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-10-27
  • ISBN : 0191083232
  • Pages : 645 pages

Download or read book Medical Psychotherapy written by Jessica Yakeley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical Psychotherapy draws together succinct descriptions of the major models of psychotherapy, written by specialists who offer an accessible, theoretical, and evidence based depiction of each therapy and its clinical role for patients. Written by the foremost voices on psychotherapy in the UK, this handbook will appeal to specialist trainees in psychiatry and consultants working in psychotherapy, along with psychologists, and allied health professionals.

Book Psychotherapy

Download or read book Psychotherapy written by Edward Wyllys Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medical profession has been largely occupied with the physical problems underlying disease and its treatment. Surgery has flourished and attracted men of high intellectual attainment, because it has produced results of a very definite and easily comprehensible character, whereas medicine, in the narrower meaning, has lagged somewhat behind in popular estimation, because its results are less tangible and spectacular, and less open to popular understanding. The aim of modern psychotherapy is to establish principles of mental reaction, which may be generally applied, in the study of individual cases. To understand the present situation it is essential to trace in rough outline the strange vagaries of the past centuries, and to see wherein our present-day ideas have had their inception. - p. 9-17.

Book Medicine over Mind

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  • Author : Dena T. Smith
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2019-09-13
  • ISBN : 0813598680
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Medicine over Mind written by Dena T. Smith and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an era in which medicalization—the process of conceptualizing and treating a wide range of human experiences as medical problems in need of medical treatment—of mental health troubles has been settled for several decades. Yet little is known about how this biomedical framework affects practitioners’ experiences. Using interviews with forty-three practitioners in the New York City area, this book offers insight into how the medical model maintains its dominant role in mental health treatment. Smith explores how practitioners grapple with available treatment models, and make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades. This is a book about practitioners working in a medicalized field; for some practitioners this is a straightforward and relatively tension-free existence while for others, who believe in and practice in-depth talk therapy, the biomedical perspective is much more challenging and causes personal and professional strains.

Book Psychotherapy in Medical Practice

Download or read book Psychotherapy in Medical Practice written by Maurice Levine and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Incorporating Psychotherapeutic Concepts and Interventions Within Medicine

Download or read book Incorporating Psychotherapeutic Concepts and Interventions Within Medicine written by Shamit Kadosh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides doctors with insights into psychological and relational dynamics to better understand themselves and their patients, deepen their understanding of somatic and psychic dimensions of illness, and give them diagnostic and therapeutic tools to design better treatment procedures for patients. In the first part of the book, the authors explore cognitive, emotional, and somatic strategies that are supportive of doctors’ well-being. In the second part, they introduce theoretical knowledge and applicable skills from psychotherapy that can illuminate the complexity of the doctor-patient relationship, broaden doctors' approaches, and upgrade their communicative skills. The third part introduces some of the basic tenets of somatic psychotherapy that can deepen doctors' understanding of symptoms and illness, providing them with richer therapeutic tools and a deeper knowledge of bodily and psychological aspects, interweaving in a variety of medical conditions. This text not only provides a helping hand to both doctors and psychotherapists in designing an amalgamated approach to clinical treatment but also provides doctors with better tools for understanding and managing the intricacies of the doctor-patient relationship.

Book Elements of Psychotherapy in General Medical Practice

Download or read book Elements of Psychotherapy in General Medical Practice written by United States. Veterans Administration and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Psychotherapy

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  • Author : James J. Walsh
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-10-20
  • ISBN : 9780266518235
  • Pages : 826 pages

Download or read book Psychotherapy written by James J. Walsh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Psychotherapy: Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence Directly and Indirectly in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived From the Mind to the Treatment of Disease Prefaces are a great waste of time, saidwfrancis Bacon, and, though they seem to proceed of modesty, they are bravery. In spite of this de terring expression of the Lord Chancellor, the author ventures to write a short apologia pro libro suo. Five years ago he began at Fordham University School of Medicine a series of lectures on Psychotherapy. This book consists of material gathered for these lectures. It will be found in many ways to partake more of the nature of a course of lectures than a true text-book. In this it follows French rather than English or American precedent. Its rela tion to lectures makes it more diffuse than the author would have wished, but this is offered as an explanation, not an excuse. Addressed to medical students and not specialists the language employed is as untechnical as possible, and, indeed, was meant as a rule to be such as young physicians might use to their patients for suggestion purposes. The historical portion is probably longer than some may deem necessary. The place of psychotherapy in'the past seemed so 1mportant, however, and psychotherapeutics masqueraded under so many forms that an historical résumé of its many phases appeared the best kind of an introduction to a book which pleads for more extensive and more deliberate use of psychotherapy in our time. The historical portion was developed for the lectures on the history of medicine at Fordham and perhaps that fact helps to account for the space allotted to this section of the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Medicalizing Counselling

Download or read book Medicalizing Counselling written by Tom Strong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how counselling, a profession known for diverse and innovative practices, has recently been influenced by scientific, marketplace, and administrative developments corresponding with a medicalized focus on psychiatric diagnoses and related evidence-based treatments. Tensions associated with this medicalized focus refer to competing logics and accountabilities regarding how to understand and address concerns brought to counselling. Tom Strong reviews such tensions as they relate to counsellors’ approaches to practice experienced as incompatible with a medicalized approach. The role of media and technology, therapy culture, and counsellor education, are examined with respect to medicalizing tensions that professionals and clients of counselling increasingly face. The book will interest readers who share concerns regarding the potential for a mental health monoculture grounded in the diagnose and treatment logic of medicalized counselling.

Book Psychotherapeutics in Medicine

Download or read book Psychotherapeutics in Medicine written by Toksoz B. Karasu and published by Saunders. This book was released on 1978 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medicalization of Everyday Life

Download or read book The Medicalization of Everyday Life written by Thomas Szasz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of impassioned essays, published between 1973 and 2006, chronicles Thomas Szasz’s long campaign against the orthodoxies of “pharmacracy,” that is, the alliance of medicine and the state. From “Diagnoses Are Not Diseases” to “The Existential Identity Thief,” “Fatal Temptation,” and “Killing as Therapy,” the book delves into the complex evolution of medicalization, concluding with “Pharmacracy: The New Despotism.” In practice, society must draw a line between what counts as medical practice and what does not. Where it draws that line goes far in defining the kinds of laws its citizens live under, the kinds of medical care they receive, and the kinds of lives they are allowed to live.

Book The Medical Model in Mental Health

Download or read book The Medical Model in Mental Health written by Ahmed Samei Huda and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many published books that comment on the medical model have been written by doctors, who assume that readers have the same knowledge of medicine, or by those who have attempted to discredit and attack the medical practice. Both types of book have tended to present diagnostic categories in medicine as universally scientifically valid examples of clear-cut diseases easily distinguished from each other and from health; with a fixed prognosis; and with a well-understood aetiology leading to disease-reversing treatments. These are contrasted with psychiatric diagnoses and treatments, which are described as unclear and inadequate in comparison. The Medical Model in Mental Health: An Explanation and Evaluation explores the overlap between the usefulness of diagnostic constructs (which enable prognosis and treatment decisions) and the therapeutic effectiveness of psychiatry compared with general medicine. The book explains the medical model and how it applies in mental health, assuming little knowledge or experience of medicine, and defends psychiatry as a medical practice.

Book Psychotherapy in An Age of Neuroscience

Download or read book Psychotherapy in An Age of Neuroscience written by Joel Paris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychotherapy In an Age of Neuroscience is a critique of the neuroscience model that dominates contemporary psychiatric practice. It shows that while the neurosciences have made great advances, this line of research has thus far had little application to the care of patients. It criticizes the over-use of psychopharmacological interventions for common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, and substance use. It examines why many, if not most, psychiatrists are seeing patients for 15-minute "med checks" oriented to current symptoms and DSM criteria, and are not taking the time to become familiar with the lives of their patients. The book shows that effective psychotherapeutic interventions are being under-utilized. It proposes that psychiatric practice include the use of psychotherapies that are brief and evidence-based. While most therapy will need to be carried out by psychologists and other mental health professionals, psychiatrists should take on the most complex and difficult cases that require both medication and therapy. By integrating biological and psychosocial interventions, psychiatrists can regain their reputation for breadth of vision and humanism.

Book Psychotherapy and Medication

Download or read book Psychotherapy and Medication written by Fredric N. Busch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, the use of medication combined with psychotherapy or psychoanalysis has shifted from an infrequent occurrence to common practice. Concurrently, attitudes toward medication have changed from viewing this intervention as disruptive or as a last resort to a welcome aid in the psychotherapeutic or psychoanalytic process. However, this relatively rapid change has created difficulty in the integration of medication use into the psychotherapeutic setting. Psychotherapy and Medication is an exceptionally valuable and timely volume that provides psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals with information on how to work with medication theoretically, clinically, and technically in the context of a psychotherapeutic or psychoanalytic treatment. Important areas of discussion include evidence that a change in the use of medication has taken place, an examination of the factors that have led to this shift, as well as a review of the issues and questions about combining treatments. Psychotherapy and Medication also serves as a framework in how to best answer the many questions that have arisen as the willingness of analysts to use medication increases. Such significant questions include: How should analysts introduce patients to medication? What are the clinical advantages of combined treatment? What is the impact of medication discussions and prescribing on the analyst’s role and how is this best handled?