The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression

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Syracuse University Press, 01.04.1988 - 258 Seiten
This intriguing book undercuts everything you thought you knew about psychotherapy.
 

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Religion as Remedy
3
The Precursors of Psychotherapy
34
Metaphorizing Magnetism
43
Repression as Remedy
67
Wilhelm Erb Julius WagnerJauregg and Sigmund
82
Franchising
101
Oedipus from
123
The Jewish Avenger
138
Pastor Without a Pulpit
173
Medicine Religion and Power
179
Contemporary Uses
193
Notes
209
Acknowledgments
225
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Autoren-Profil (1988)

Thomas Szasz is the author of over four-hundred articles and nineteen books; among the most recent are The Therapeutic State: Psychiatry in the Mirror of Current Events and Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences. He was both a practicing psychiatrist and a professor of psychiatry at the Health Science Center, State University of New York, in Syracuse.

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