Ultimacy and triviality in psychotherapy
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Ultimacy and triviality in psychotherapy
Praeger, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-129) and indexes
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Description
Keen, a professor and practicing psychotherapist, addresses the essential distinction between the truly serious questions involved in human life and the superficial aspects so generally engaging people's concern-and often professional treatment-which he terms, triviality. He considers how contemporary practice of psychotherapy often fails to admit to the critical difference, fails to recognize it in practice, and subsequently treats patients for irrelevancies while neglecting core, essential issues.
Keen addressed his concern about the prevalent practices among psychological/medical practitioners vis-a-vis the prescriptive drug control of mental problems in earlier publications. In this work, including a therapy case study, Keen's position-an important one warranting wide attention in the medical and helping professions-stresses that pharmacotherapy threatens our access, and openness to ultimate issues. For professionals and scholars in medicine, public health, clinical psychology, psychiatrists, and psychotherapists.
Table of Contents
Introduction Theoretical Incoherence Critical Reflections on Psychopharmacology Neurons and Narratives Exploring Theoretical Incoherence Wider Echoes of the Incoherence Ultimacy and Coherence in Self and Therapy Discourse, Therapy, and Science Trivialization, Ultimacy, and Discourse Triviality and Ultimacy in Therapy References Index
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