Changing Minds
The History of Psychotherapy as an Answer to Human Suffering (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15027041 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E James Lieberman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 328-329 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2001.0081 |
| OpenAlex | W2029473904 |
| Language | EN |
At his best, Frank Tallis, a clinical psychologist, writes engagingly for his audience of general readers. He subscribes to the idea that Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud [End Page 328] deflated humanity's collective ego: "As the human race has undergone successive episodes of demotion, mental illness has been a stalwart companion on the downward journey. The trajectory of descent has taken mental illness from the ethereal realms of the supernatural to the pedestrian world of brain chemistry and disease" (p. 4)
Demotion · Humanity · Mental health · Mental illness · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Theology · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |