A lively indictment of American culture's pervasive use of the psychotherapeutic metaphor to explain behaviours, a habit that has crossed the Atlantic in recent years, arguing that psychotherapy and excessive individualism has only ensured the continuance of social problems.

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"Throop s book is a real winner. The book cuts across clinical psychology and cultural studies. It improves greatly on some similar material and attempts to trace individualism in actual policies. Throop knows the literature and has gone about a cultural critique in a sensible way." - William Epstein, Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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ELIZABETH A. THROOP is Chair, of the Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Eastern Kentucky University, USA.

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Book Title: Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy
Book Subtitle: Immoral Individualism
Authors: Elizabeth A. Throop
Series Title: Culture, Mind, and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230618350
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60945-7Published: 13 February 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37597-4Published: 13 February 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61835-0Published: 05 January 2009
Series ISSN: 2637-6806
Series E-ISSN: 2634-517X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 192
Topics: Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Social Work, Popular Science in Psychology

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