On the Social Utility of Psychopathology: A Deviant Majority and Its Keepers - Couverture rigide

Pallone, Nathaniel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0887380484 ISBN 13 : 9780887380488

Editeur : Transaction Publishers, 1986

Synopsis

Nathaniel Pallone argues that, whatever else is true of psycho-pathology, it serves purposes which are socially useful. What-ever else is true of its clinical treatment, such treatment func-tions as a form of social regula-tion. In societal terms, such treat-ment may serve purposes quite other than the relief of psycho-logical disease or even the remedy of psychological disorder. If psychopathology had not emerged naturally, society might have needed to engender psychopathogenic conditions both to fulfill so-cially useful purposes and to elicit that subtle mechanism for social regulation we term "psychother-apy." Pallone constructs his ar-gument by summing up the evi-dence for two points which apply to all psychotherapeutic practice: that the relief of psychopathology is in no dependable way associ-ated with psychotherapeutic treatment; and that in all schools of psychotherapy, the only clear-cut criterion for terminating treatment is the limit of the pa-tient's financial resources.What surprised me in this manu-script is the stark simplicity with which Pallone constructs his ar-gument [that] society acquires the license to create unlimited [psy-chological] disease, to define this disease as intolerable, to finance armies of disease alleviators providing 'treatments' that are in even more profound contradic-tion with each other than were the religions of old.... The illustra-tion[s] make Pallone's argument crystal clear. - Ivan Illich, from the Preface

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nathaniel Pallone

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Transaction Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0887380484
• ISBN 13: 9780887380488
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 92
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible