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Journal of Nursing & Care

ISSN: 2167-1168

Open Access

Ian Shaw

School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham,
Nottingham
United Kingdom

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  • 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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