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CBT: the cognitive behavioural tsunami managerialism, politics and the corruptions of science

By: Dalal, Farhad
Material type: TextTextLanguage: 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

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