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Item Details
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ON THE SOCIAL UTILITY OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
A DEVIANT MAJORITY AND ITS KEEPERS? |
| By: |
Nathaniel J. Pallone |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£76.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0887380484 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780887380488 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC |
| Pub. date: |
30 January, 1986 |
| Pages: |
92 |
| 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 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Transaction Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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