CBT: the cognitive behavioural tsunami managerialism, politics and the corruptions of science
By: Dalal, Farhad
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: United Kingdom -- Routledge -- 2018Description: xv, 197pISBN: 9781782206644Subject(s): Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | Mental disorder | Psychiatric drugs | DepressionDDC classification: 616.89 DAL/C Summary: Is CBT all it claims to be? CBT : The cognitive behavioural tsunami : managerialism, politics and the corruptions of science provides a powerful critique of CBT's understanding of human suffering, as well as the apparent scientific basis underlying it. The book argues that CBT psychology has fetishized measurement to such a degree that it has come to believe that only the countable counts. It suggests that the so-called science of CBT is not just "bad science" but "corrupt science
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*Introduction: hyper-rationality
*The tsunami begins
*The merchants of happiness
*Master-myths and identity formation
*The 'psy' wars
*Homo economics
*Managerialism
*NICE : naughty, but not nice
*CBT treatment
*IAPT : managerialism and the privatization of mental health
*Good science
*The corruptions of science
*Statistical spin; linguistic obfuscation
*The cognitivist delusion
Is CBT all it claims to be? CBT : The cognitive behavioural tsunami : managerialism, politics and the corruptions of science provides a powerful critique of CBT's understanding of human suffering, as well as the apparent scientific basis underlying it. The book argues that CBT psychology has fetishized measurement to such a degree that it has come to believe that only the countable counts. It suggests that the so-called science of CBT is not just "bad science" but "corrupt science