Therapy Gone Mad

Author : Carol Lynn Mithers
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Therapy Gone Mad written by Carol Lynn Mithers and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994-04-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Therapy Gone Mad, journalist Carol Lynn Mithers offers a riveting story of betrayal by psychology and psychotherapy on a massive scale." "The Center for Feeling Therapy was founded in Los Angeles in 1971 by a group of dissidents from Arthur Janov's Primal Institute. Its charismatic leaders, Joe Hart and Richard "Riggs" Corriere, soon reached the mainstream, writing several books and appearing on "The Tonight Show" to hawk their radical approach to therapy. But soon after the Center's closing, on the eve of Ronald Reagan's election victory, patients began to file charges of physical and sexual abuse with the California authorities; the Center had become a cult community where patients' lives were no longer their own. Mithers methodically builds her story of the evolution of a cult from its seemingly innocent, hopeful beginning to its horrifying, explosive end." "What drew these patients there? Who were they, what happened to them, where are they now? Through their own eyes, Mithers recreates the Center's astonishing rise and fall through the 1970s - that "lost" decade when psychotherapy became an essential tool to "finding yourself." What she has achieved here is a stunning look at the search for inner fulfillment that wreaked havoc on many of the young people of the Sixties as they tried to grow up." "Therapy Gone Mad is a gripping portrait of a generation looking for itself - and of our obsession, as a society, with the cult of psychotherapy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Marybeth Ayella
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439903964
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insane Therapy written by Marybeth Ayella and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Group therapy goes awry in one community and shows how vulnerable we all can be to cult mentality.

Author : Jack Cashill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416531033
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's the Matter with California? written by Jack Cashill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whimsical response to the best-selling What's the Matter with Kansas? casts a skeptical eye on the nation's most liberal and populous state, in an anecdotal survey that likens California to an American Rome of over-indulgence and over-regulation that fails to meet its ideals.

Author : Marybeth Ayella
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1566396018
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insane Therapy written by Marybeth Ayella and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensational media coverage of groups like Heaven's Gate, the People's Temple, and Synanon is tinged with the suggestion that only crazy, lonely, or gullible people join cults. Cults attract people on the fringe of society, people already on the edge. Contrary to this public perception, Marybeth Ayella reveals how anyone seeking personal change in an intense community setting is susceptible to the lure of group influence. The book begins with the candid story of how one keen skeptic was recruited by Moonies in the 1970s -- the author herself. Ayella's personal experience fueled her interest in studying the cult phenomenon. This book focuses on her analysis of one community in southern California, The Center for Feeling Therapy, which opened in 1971 as an offshoot of Arthur Janov's Primal Scream approach. The group attracted mostly middle-class, college-educated clients interested in change through intense sessions led by licensed therapists. At the time of the Center's collapse in 1980, there were three hundred individuals living in the therapeutic community and another six hundred outpatients. Through interviews with twenty-one former patients, the author develops a picture of the positive changes they sought, the pressures of group living, and the allegations of abuse against therapists. Many patients contended that they were beaten, made to strip before the group and to engage in forced sex, forced to have abortions and give up children, and coerced to donate money and to work in business affiliated with the Center. The close of the Center brought yet more trauma to the patients as they struggled to readjust to mainstream life. Ayella recounts the stories of these individuals, again and again returning to the question of how personal identity is formed and the power of social influences. This book is a key to understanding how "normal" people wind up in cults.

Author : Jack Fenix
Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
ISBN 13 : 1849913919
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book None But the Mad written by Jack Fenix and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DescriptionDrugs, delusions and disorders, a five year jaunt through the many afflictions of one man who just refused to die. A true story about how a man's madness turned into a search for the answers to great philosphical questions in order to regain his sanity. The book which casually jumps from comedy through tragedy and borders on philosophy is an account of many of the mental health problems that can affect a person, depression, post traumatic stress, messianic and psychotic delusions and social anxiety from a man who experienced them all and experienced them while on drugs. Madness is not a description that fully does justice to the many experiences and choices of this one peculiar man. About the AuthorJack Fenix was born in October of 1986 and raised for most of his life by a single mother. From a young age he began having the delusion that he was meant to save the world, his first experience of mental illness, and became more engrossed in it as time passed. Experiencing post traumatic stress disorder at age fifteen he withdrew from the world even further into drug addiction and using computer games as another means of escapism. At age eighteen he was hit by a further traumatic incident which forced him to face up to years of mental illness and delusion and quit the drugs which he had used to keep himself from facing reality. After years in recovery he faces many mental health problems but tries to stay active in the cause of mental health reform as much as possible.

Author : Charles Glass
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 198487795X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldiers Don't Go Mad written by Charles Glass and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine gun shelling, incredible artillery power, flame throwers, and gas attacks. Within the first four months of the war, the British Army recorded the nervous collapse of ten percent of its officers; the loss of such manpower to mental illness – not to mention death and physical wounds – left the army unable to fill its ranks. Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen was twenty-four years old when he was admitted to the newly established Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatment of shell shock. A bourgeoning poet, trying to make sense of the terror he had witnessed, he read a collection of poems from a fellow officer, Siegfried Sassoon, and was impressed by his portrayal of the soldier’s plight. One month later, Sassoon himself arrived at Craiglockhart, having refused to return to the front after being wounded during battle. Though Owen and Sassoon differed in age, class, education, and interests, both were outsiders – as soldiers unfit to fight, as gay men in a homophobic country, and as Britons unwilling to support a war likely to wipe out an entire generation of young men. But more than anything else, they shared a love of the English language, and its highest expression of poetry. As their friendship evolved over their months as patients at Craiglockhart, each encouraged the other in their work, in their personal reckonings with the morality of war, as well as in their treatment. Therapy provided Owen, Sassoon, and fellow patients with insights that allowed them express themselves better, and for the 28 months that Craiglockhart was in operation, it notably incubated the era’s most significant developments in both psychiatry and poetry. Drawing on rich source materials, as well as Glass’s own deep understanding of trauma and war, Soldiers Don't Go Mad tells for the first time the story of the soldiers and doctors who struggled with the effects of industrial warfare on the human psyche. Writing beyond the battlefields, to the psychiatric couch of Craiglockhart but also the literary salons, halls of power, and country houses, Glass charts the experiences of Owen and Sassoon, and of their fellow soldier-poets, alongside the greater literary response to modern warfare. As he investigates the roots of what we now know as post-traumatic stress disorder, Glass brings historical bearing to how we must consider war’s ravaging effects on mental health, and the ways in which creative work helps us come to terms with even the darkest of times.

Author : Morrall, Peter
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 033521875X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble With Therapy: Sociology And Psychotherapy written by Morrall, Peter and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sociology of psychotherapy describes it as a lottery and replete with conflict and rivalries. Moreover, therapy is accused of being arrogant, selfish, abusive, infectious, mad, sexualised, and of promoting the myth happiness.

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393325720
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries written by Martin Gardner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-07-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a society begging to be duped, Martin Gardner, the most devastating debunker of scientific fraud and chicanery of our time, ranges here from science and mathematics to literature, philosophy, religion, and mysticism. With keen skepticism, he skewers the fallacies of pseudoscience, from Dr. Bruno Bettelheim's erroneous theory of autism to the farce of Primal Scream therapy, and he examines the bizarre tangents produced by Freudians and deconstructionists in their critiques of "Little Red Riding Hood." Book jacket.

Author : Richard House
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429922906
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Therapy Beyond Modernity written by Richard House and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws together radical critiques of therapy and shows how therapists have become too willing administrators of the mind, and how they then delight in the bureaucratic management of therapeutic practice.

Author : Mark Pendergrast
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319633759
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Repressed Memory Epidemic written by Mark Pendergrast and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive overview of the concept of repressed memories. It provides a history and context that documents key events that have had an effect on the way that modern psychology and psychotherapy have developed. Chapters provide an overview of how human memory functions and works and examine facets of the misguided theories behind repressed memory. The book also examines the science of the brain, the reconstructive nature of human memory, and studies of suggestibility. It traces the present-day resurgence of a belief in repressed memories in the general public as well as among many clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, “body workers,” and others who offer counseling. It concludes with legal and professional recommendations and advice for individuals who deal with or have dealt with the psychotherapeutic practice of repressed memory therapy. Topics featured in this text include: The modern diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) (once called MPD) The “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s and its relation to repressed memory therapy. The McMartin Preschool Case and the “Day Care Sex Panic.” A historical overview from the Great Witch Craze to Sigmund Freud’s theories, spanning the 16th to 19th centuries. An exploration of the cultural context that produced the repressed memory epidemic of the 1990s. The repressed memory movement as a religious sect or cult. The Repressed Memory Epidemic will be of interest to researchers and clinicians as well as undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of psychology, sociology, cultural studies, religion, and anthropology.