Changing minds : the history of psychotherapy as an answer to human suffering / Frank Tallis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tallis, Frank.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--History.

Psychotherapy.

History.

Physical Description:

171 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Cassell, [1998]

Summary:

This is the only book to provide the lay person with a "readable" history of developments in psychotherapy from the late 1950s to the present. It provides a valuable introduction to the key figures (from Freud to Beck) and explains their most important ideas. It illustrates how psychotherapy has influenced our understanding of the mind and how it works, showing how historical and cultural events have influenced ideas about the mind, and vice versa. In particular, it thoroughly examines the area we refer to as "mental illness."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [170]-171) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

030470363X

0304703621

OCLC:

41452923