Jerome Neu
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199862986
- eISBN:
- 9780199949762
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199862986.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter presents reviews of the following: The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy by Marcia Cavell; Innocence and Experience by Stuart Hampshire; Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny ...
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This chapter presents reviews of the following: The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy by Marcia Cavell; Innocence and Experience by Stuart Hampshire; Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson; and Not Passion's Slave: Emotions and Choice by Robert C. Solomon.Less
This chapter presents reviews of the following: The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy by Marcia Cavell; Innocence and Experience by Stuart Hampshire; Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson; and Not Passion's Slave: Emotions and Choice by Robert C. Solomon.
Augustine Nwoye
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- April 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780190932497
- eISBN:
- 9780197630174
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190932497.003.0015
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter reports on the psychological processes and rituals of hope-healing communities organized by religious ministers in two regions of Africa. The chapter gives narrative accounts of the key ...
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This chapter reports on the psychological processes and rituals of hope-healing communities organized by religious ministers in two regions of Africa. The chapter gives narrative accounts of the key hope-generating processes incorporated into the eight-stage structure of their practice. The chapter presents new concepts and highlights the psychological healing factors in these communities intended to help people cope with the devastating conditions in today’s Africa. The chapter is framed against the background of the enduring grim and disappointing conditions of the African experience in the past 40 years, during which persistent economic depressions and ethnic, military, and armed civil conflicts have continued to bedevil the many nations that make up the continent. Through a process of sharing rituals, song, and dance and in identifying with others, life takes on greater meaning and significance for participants and hope, fueled by a spiritual and humanistic resonance, points the way toward self-healing.Less
This chapter reports on the psychological processes and rituals of hope-healing communities organized by religious ministers in two regions of Africa. The chapter gives narrative accounts of the key hope-generating processes incorporated into the eight-stage structure of their practice. The chapter presents new concepts and highlights the psychological healing factors in these communities intended to help people cope with the devastating conditions in today’s Africa. The chapter is framed against the background of the enduring grim and disappointing conditions of the African experience in the past 40 years, during which persistent economic depressions and ethnic, military, and armed civil conflicts have continued to bedevil the many nations that make up the continent. Through a process of sharing rituals, song, and dance and in identifying with others, life takes on greater meaning and significance for participants and hope, fueled by a spiritual and humanistic resonance, points the way toward self-healing.
Richard P. Bentall
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814791486
- eISBN:
- 9780814739143
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814791486.003.0011
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
This chapter discusses the failure of the dominant paradigm in psychiatry, which assumes that mental illnesses are genetically influenced brain diseases. The failure of psychiatry is the consequence ...
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This chapter discusses the failure of the dominant paradigm in psychiatry, which assumes that mental illnesses are genetically influenced brain diseases. The failure of psychiatry is the consequence of erroneous assumptions about the nature of mental illness, and of ignoring the importance of warmth and kindness in promoting psychological healing. A recovery-orientated, autonomy-enhancing approach calls for the finding of ways to give more authority to the consumer. It seems that the greatest force for good in modern mental health care is the rise of an organized and increasingly vocal consumer movement. Organizations such as the Hearing Voices Network encourage patients to pursue avenues of recovery that they choose themselves, and offer protection against mental health professionals who fail to address their members' needs.Less
This chapter discusses the failure of the dominant paradigm in psychiatry, which assumes that mental illnesses are genetically influenced brain diseases. The failure of psychiatry is the consequence of erroneous assumptions about the nature of mental illness, and of ignoring the importance of warmth and kindness in promoting psychological healing. A recovery-orientated, autonomy-enhancing approach calls for the finding of ways to give more authority to the consumer. It seems that the greatest force for good in modern mental health care is the rise of an organized and increasingly vocal consumer movement. Organizations such as the Hearing Voices Network encourage patients to pursue avenues of recovery that they choose themselves, and offer protection against mental health professionals who fail to address their members' needs.
