Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and the Politics of Human Relationships

Download or read book Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and the Politics of Human Relationships written by Laurence Simon and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a psychology of human personality and behavior created as a function of the politics practiced by the social structure in which they are based. Simon demonstrates the dangers of the psychiatry and therapy industries from a variety of political, religious, and scientific perspectives. He argues that the mental health field, as currently dominated by psychiatric thinking entrenched in the "myths of mental illness," is acting as a social control agency and a force in the development of a totalitarian state.