Journal of Nursing & Care

Ian Shaw

Publications

• Review Article
  Sociological Conceptions of Happiness and its Implications for Psychotherapy and Public Policy
  Author(s): Ian ShawIan Shaw
  
  This paper critiques the usefulness of cognitive-behavioural therapy, which is often seen as a means of redressing the loss of community and friendship networks within society. Therapy in this context they runs the danger of becoming an Iatrogenesis at worst and just another `technology of mood’ at best. In this paper we develop the critiques made elsewhere and provide a more nuanced argument that considers a wider range of psychological therapies. While all psychological therapies operate at an individual level, there are wide differences in the epistemological stances taken by differing therapeutic schools. Cognitive-behavioural therapy focuses on the idea of dysfunctional thinking within the individual, psychoanalytic therapy focuses upon developmental legacies, whereas person-centred therapy focuses on currently active social influences. In this form one to one therapy can b.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168.1000261

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