James T. Hansen

Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture

Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling and Psychotherapy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture critiques the objectification of clients and concomitant abandonment of meaning systems that characterize contemporary counseling and psychotherapy. Hansen provides a scholarly overview of trends in talk therapy through a cultural, historical, empirical, and philosophical examination of mental health care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9781498516327
• ISBN-10: 1498516327
• Artikelnr.: 56727341

Autorenporträt

James T. Hansen is professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Meaning Systems and Psychological Suffering
Chapter 2: Conceptualizations of Meaning System
Chapter 3: Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture
Chapter 4: Contemporary Culture and Objectification
Chapter 5: Training for Talk Therapists
Summary and Further Reflections
References