Psychotherapy
10 Apr 2009 17:40See also: Freud; Jung; Neuropsychiatry; Persuasion; Possession; Religious Conversion
- Recommended:
- Nancy Andreasen, The Broken Brain
- Robyn M. Dawes, House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth
- Edward Dolnick, Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis
- Carol Tavris, "Mind Games: Psychological Warfare Between Therapists and Scientists," Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 February 2003 [online]
- Ethan Watters and Richards Ofshe, Therapy's Delusions
- To read:
- Chris R. Brewin, "Theoretical Foundations of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Anxiety and Depression", Annual Review of Psychology 47 (1996): 33--57
- Rowland Folensbee, The Neuroscience of Psychological Therapies [blurb]
- Jay Haley, The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ and Other Essays [by a "recovered psychoanalyst," in the words of a correspondent]
- Ellen Herman, The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts [online]
- Susan Mineka, David Watson and Lee Anna Clark, "Comorbidity of Anxiety and Unipolar Mood Disorders", Annual Review of Psychology 49 (1998): 377--41
- Eva Moskowitz, In Therapy We Trust: America's Obsession With Self-Fulfillment
- Dominic Murphy, Psychiatry in the Scientific Image [Blurb]
- Peter E. Nathan and Jack M. Gorman (eds.), A Guide to Treatments That Work ["Takes stock of current drug treatment and psychotherapeutic interventions to see which actually work and which don't, and provides detailed specification of methods and procedures to ensure effective treatment for each major DSM-IV disorder." 1998]
- Edward Shorter, From the Mind into the Body: The Cultural Origins of Psychosomatic Symptoms
- E. Fuller Torrey
- Witchdoctors and Psychiatrists
- Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis
- Michael W. Vasey and Mark R. Dadds (eds.), The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety
