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Depression, like most words, nests within a semantic web of similar-but-different words—call this “the language of the downcast.” The language of the downcast lends itself to nuanced reflection and analysis. Because our ability to manage our lives depends on the ability to differentiate and articulate emotions and to represent them in scenarios of...
While the aims of mental health care are legitimate, many of its claims to scientific truth are not, asserts Robert T. Fancher. Fancher argues that the mental health professions are composed of competing "cultures," each built around ideology and subjective belief. The authority we ascribe to them is misplaced precisely because it rests on false cl...
The author argues that schools of care are really cultures whose practices and teachings are only minimally based in science. Although the early link of mental-health care to medicine was historically fortuitous, bestowing a debatable authority on the field, these schools' consuming preoccupation with scientific legitimacy has severely limited ment...
Typescript. Thesis (B.A.)--Mississippi College, 1975. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 94).