Nathaniel Pallone argues that, whatever else is true of psycho-pathology, it serves purposes which are socially useful. What-ever else is true of its clinical treatment, such treatment func-tions as a form of social regula-tion. In societal terms, such treat-ment may serve purposes quite other than the relief of psycho-logical disease or even the remedy of psychological disorder. If psychopathology had not emerged naturally, society might have needed to engender psychopathogenic conditions both to fulfill so-cially useful purposes and to elicit that subtle mechanism for social regulation we term "psychother-apy." Pallone constructs his ar-gument by summing up the evi-dence for two points which apply to all psychotherapeutic practice: that the relief of psychopathology is in no dependable way associ-ated with psychotherapeutic treatment; and that in all schools of psychotherapy, the only clear-cut criterion for terminating treatment is the limit of the pa-tient's financial resources.
What surprised me in this manu-script is the stark simplicity with which Pallone constructs his ar-gument that] society acquires the license to create unlimited psy-chological] disease, to define this disease as intolerable, to finance armies of disease alleviators providing 'treatments' that are in even more profound contradic-tion with each other than were the religions of old.... The illustra-tion s] make Pallone's argument crystal clear.
--Ivan Illich, from the Preface
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Nathaniel Pallone argues that, whatever else is true of psycho-pathology, it serves purposes which are socially useful. What-ever else is true of its clinical treatment, such treatment func-tions as a form of social regula-tion. In societal terms, such treat-ment may serve purposes quite other than the relief of psycho-logical disease or even the remedy of psychological disorder. If psychopathology had not emerged naturally, society might have needed to engender psychopathogenic conditions both to fulfill so-cially useful purposes and to elicit that subtle mechanism for social regulation we term "psychother-apy." Pallone constructs his ar-gument by summing up the evi-dence for two points which apply to all psychotherapeutic practice: that the relief of psychopathology is in no dependable way associ-ated with psychotherapeutic treatment; and that in all schools of psychotherapy, the only clear-cut criterion for terminating treatment is the limit of the pa-tient's financial resources.
What surprised me in this manu-script is the stark simplicity with which Pallone constructs his ar-gument that] society acquires the license to create unlimited psy-chological] disease, to define this disease as intolerable, to finance armies of disease alleviators providing 'treatments' that are in even more profound contradic-tion with each other than were the religions of old.... The illustra-tion s] make Pallone's argument crystal clear.
--Ivan Illich, from the Preface
Imprint | Transaction Publishers |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | 1986 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 1986 |
Authors | Nathaniel Pallone |
Dimensions | 230 x 150 x 0mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 92 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-88738-048-8 |
Barcode | 9780887380488 |
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LSN | 0-88738-048-4 |