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How to Survive Without Psychotherapy
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How to Survive Without Psychotherapy

How to Survive Without Psychotherapy

ByDavid Smail
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1996
eBook Published 8 May 2018
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780429475641
Pages 254 pages
eBook ISBN 9780429900419
SubjectsBehavioral Sciences
KeywordsProximal World, Therapeutic Approaches, Therapeutic Comfort, Snooker Ball, Rogerian Counsellors
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Smail, D. (1996). How to Survive Without Psychotherapy. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429475641
ABOUT THIS BOOK

This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the 'treatment' of mental illness. It is not exactly a self-help book because it is a false claim of any 'treatment' of mental illness that 'cure' can be brought about by exercise of will. Much of what causes mental distress is lack of power and resource, outside the control of the sufferer. Surviving without psychotherapy involves the appreciation of several things. First, the limited nature of therapeutic assistance - whilst clarification and support may help the sufferer understand his/her predicament and encourage the use of what resources the sufferer has, therapy cannot change the distal root causes of distress. Second, that only socio-political solutions can address some of the most powerful causes of distress, e.g., redundancy, housing and poverty. In sounding a cautionary note about psychoanalysis, Smail observes that mental distress is far more about money than sex.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter One|32 pages
The Treatment of Distress: Current Approaches
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Two|50 pages
The Experience of Distress
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Three|24 pages
The Tyranny of ‘Normality’
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Four|23 pages
Troublesome Worlds – People and Power
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Five|28 pages
What Should We Do? Moral Demands
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Six|29 pages
What Can We Do? The Problem of Will Power
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Seven|28 pages
What Could We Do? Learning and Change
ByDavid Smail
View abstract

This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the 'treatment' of mental illness. It is not exactly a self-help book because it is a false claim of any 'treatment' of mental illness that 'cure' can be brought about by exercise of will. Much of what causes mental distress is lack of power and resource, outside the control of the sufferer. Surviving without psychotherapy involves the appreciation of several things. First, the limited nature of therapeutic assistance - whilst clarification and support may help the sufferer understand his/her predicament and encourage the use of what resources the sufferer has, therapy cannot change the distal root causes of distress. Second, that only socio-political solutions can address some of the most powerful causes of distress, e.g., redundancy, housing and poverty. In sounding a cautionary note about psychoanalysis, Smail observes that mental distress is far more about money than sex.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter One|32 pages
The Treatment of Distress: Current Approaches
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Two|50 pages
The Experience of Distress
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Three|24 pages
The Tyranny of ‘Normality’
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Four|23 pages
Troublesome Worlds – People and Power
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Five|28 pages
What Should We Do? Moral Demands
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Six|29 pages
What Can We Do? The Problem of Will Power
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Seven|28 pages
What Could We Do? Learning and Change
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK

This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the 'treatment' of mental illness. It is not exactly a self-help book because it is a false claim of any 'treatment' of mental illness that 'cure' can be brought about by exercise of will. Much of what causes mental distress is lack of power and resource, outside the control of the sufferer. Surviving without psychotherapy involves the appreciation of several things. First, the limited nature of therapeutic assistance - whilst clarification and support may help the sufferer understand his/her predicament and encourage the use of what resources the sufferer has, therapy cannot change the distal root causes of distress. Second, that only socio-political solutions can address some of the most powerful causes of distress, e.g., redundancy, housing and poverty. In sounding a cautionary note about psychoanalysis, Smail observes that mental distress is far more about money than sex.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter One|32 pages
The Treatment of Distress: Current Approaches
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Two|50 pages
The Experience of Distress
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Three|24 pages
The Tyranny of ‘Normality’
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Four|23 pages
Troublesome Worlds – People and Power
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Five|28 pages
What Should We Do? Moral Demands
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Six|29 pages
What Can We Do? The Problem of Will Power
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Seven|28 pages
What Could We Do? Learning and Change
ByDavid Smail
View abstract

This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the 'treatment' of mental illness. It is not exactly a self-help book because it is a false claim of any 'treatment' of mental illness that 'cure' can be brought about by exercise of will. Much of what causes mental distress is lack of power and resource, outside the control of the sufferer. Surviving without psychotherapy involves the appreciation of several things. First, the limited nature of therapeutic assistance - whilst clarification and support may help the sufferer understand his/her predicament and encourage the use of what resources the sufferer has, therapy cannot change the distal root causes of distress. Second, that only socio-political solutions can address some of the most powerful causes of distress, e.g., redundancy, housing and poverty. In sounding a cautionary note about psychoanalysis, Smail observes that mental distress is far more about money than sex.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter One|32 pages
The Treatment of Distress: Current Approaches
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Two|50 pages
The Experience of Distress
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Three|24 pages
The Tyranny of ‘Normality’
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Four|23 pages
Troublesome Worlds – People and Power
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Five|28 pages
What Should We Do? Moral Demands
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Six|29 pages
What Can We Do? The Problem of Will Power
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Seven|28 pages
What Could We Do? Learning and Change
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK

This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the 'treatment' of mental illness. It is not exactly a self-help book because it is a false claim of any 'treatment' of mental illness that 'cure' can be brought about by exercise of will. Much of what causes mental distress is lack of power and resource, outside the control of the sufferer. Surviving without psychotherapy involves the appreciation of several things. First, the limited nature of therapeutic assistance - whilst clarification and support may help the sufferer understand his/her predicament and encourage the use of what resources the sufferer has, therapy cannot change the distal root causes of distress. Second, that only socio-political solutions can address some of the most powerful causes of distress, e.g., redundancy, housing and poverty. In sounding a cautionary note about psychoanalysis, Smail observes that mental distress is far more about money than sex.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter One|32 pages
The Treatment of Distress: Current Approaches
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Two|50 pages
The Experience of Distress
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Three|24 pages
The Tyranny of ‘Normality’
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Four|23 pages
Troublesome Worlds – People and Power
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Five|28 pages
What Should We Do? Moral Demands
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Six|29 pages
What Can We Do? The Problem of Will Power
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Seven|28 pages
What Could We Do? Learning and Change
ByDavid Smail
View abstract

This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the 'treatment' of mental illness. It is not exactly a self-help book because it is a false claim of any 'treatment' of mental illness that 'cure' can be brought about by exercise of will. Much of what causes mental distress is lack of power and resource, outside the control of the sufferer. Surviving without psychotherapy involves the appreciation of several things. First, the limited nature of therapeutic assistance - whilst clarification and support may help the sufferer understand his/her predicament and encourage the use of what resources the sufferer has, therapy cannot change the distal root causes of distress. Second, that only socio-political solutions can address some of the most powerful causes of distress, e.g., redundancy, housing and poverty. In sounding a cautionary note about psychoanalysis, Smail observes that mental distress is far more about money than sex.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter One|32 pages
The Treatment of Distress: Current Approaches
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Two|50 pages
The Experience of Distress
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Three|24 pages
The Tyranny of ‘Normality’
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Four|23 pages
Troublesome Worlds – People and Power
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Five|28 pages
What Should We Do? Moral Demands
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Six|29 pages
What Can We Do? The Problem of Will Power
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
chapter Seven|28 pages
What Could We Do? Learning and Change
ByDavid Smail
View abstract
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