Overview
Fast becoming a contemporary classic... this book tries both to be critical and engender critical thinking in a number of ways. It offers an overview of a number of theories that address human distress as well as particular forms of "pathology". This book effectively highlights the way that western society has taken "normal"; and "abnormal" emotional states to be factual entities rather than the constructed understandings of human phenomena that they are.... should be on the reading list of every course//module that attends to human distress′ - Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis This practical and accessible critique of the institutions, practices and presuppositions that underlie the st
- | Author: Ian Patrick
- | Publisher: Sage Publications UK
- | Publication Date: Nov 21, 1995
- | Number of Pages: 176 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0803974809
- | ISBN-13: 9780803974807
