Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david smail

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  • HOW TO SURVIVE WITHOUT PSYCHOTHERAPY
    DAVID SMAIL
    This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the 'treatment' of mental illness. It is not exactly a self-help book because it is a false claim of any 'treatment' of mental illness that 'cure' can be brought about by exercise of wil...

    $640.00

  • ILLUSION AND REALITY
    DAVID SMAIL
    This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual sufferer. Instead, anxiety and depression are described as perfectly rational responses to difficulties in the sufferer's world, experienced subjectively by that person. An essential contrast is drawn between objective conceptions of normal...

    $640.00

  • TAKING CARE
    DAVID SMAIL
    Taking Care established the author as an important social and political analyst whose background happened to be in clinical psychology. In this work the author develops the analysis of mental illness, and psychology in general, in the contexts of society, power and interest. People's experience is embodied in the world in which they exist. Notwithstanding the claims of some, ps...

    $640.00

  • THE ORIGINS OF UNHAPPINESS
    DAVID SMAIL
    It is the main argument of this book that emotional and psychological distress is often brought about through the operation of social-environmental powers which have their origin at a considerable distance from those ultimately subjected to them. On the whole, psychology has concerned itself very little with the field of power which stretches beyond our immediate relations with...

    $640.00