'The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder'
by Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield
This review from the Vancouver Sun raises some excellent points. Of especial interest is the distinction between Freudian psychoanalysts and their involvement in social change and politics and the current absence by most counsellors (with a few exceptions - Gabor Mate here in Vancouver for example) in any political debate and the way they are able to treat symptoms without addressing socio-economic causes.
by Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield
This review from the Vancouver Sun raises some excellent points. Of especial interest is the distinction between Freudian psychoanalysts and their involvement in social change and politics and the current absence by most counsellors (with a few exceptions - Gabor Mate here in Vancouver for example) in any political debate and the way they are able to treat symptoms without addressing socio-economic causes.
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