Therapy's Delusions: the Myth of the Unconscious and the Exploitation of Today's Walking Worried
- List Price: $25.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- Publish date: 12/01/2007
Description:
Despite the lack of credible evidence for a powerful unconscious that controls our behavior, many therapists continue to base their practice on the theory of the psychodynamic mind. Therapy's Delusions issues a sweeping attack on Freud and his legacy, arguing that he created a myth -- masquerading as a scientific discipline -- that has misled thousands upon thousands of well-intentioned mental health professionals and vulnerable patients over the last hundred years.
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The authors -- whose previous collaborative effort, Making Monsters, a critique of the use of recovered memories in psychotherapy, was hailed as "trenchant, combative, penetrating, courageous" (Times Literary Supplement) -- fiercely champion the biomedical approach to mental health. They applaud the effectiveness not just of new drugs, but also the groundbreaking research on the genetic causes of many disorders and the latest advances in cognitive and behavioral approaches to counseling. This stinging indictment and call to action for reforming the mental health profession will stir heated debate and controversy -- as surely as it will open people's eyes to the fraud of therapy.
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