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Hansen, James T.,

Meaning systems and mental health culture : critical perspectives on contemporary counseling and psychotherapy / James T. Hansen. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Meaning systems and psychological suffering -- Conceptualizations of meaning system -- Meaning systems and mental health culture -- Contemporary culture and objectification -- Training for talk therapists.

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 througha cultural, historical, empirical, and philosophical examination of mental health care.

ISBN: 9781498516310 (ebook) 1498516319 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2015045397

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Psychotherapy--Philosophy.
Counseling--Philosophy.
Mental health.
Psychotherapy.
Philosophy.
Psychotherapy
Philosophy
Counseling
Mental Health
Counseling--Philosophie.
Santé mentale.
Psychothérapie.
Philosophie.
Counseling.
mental health.
philosophy.
counseling.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.
MEDICAL--Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL--Diseases.
MEDICAL--Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL--Internal Medicine.
Psychotherapy--Philosophy.
Counseling--Philosophy.
Mental health.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RC437.5

Dewey Class. No.: 616.89/14

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WM 101