Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling and Psychotherapy - Paperback

by James T. Hansen (Author)

Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture critiques the objectification of clients and concomitant abandonment of meaning systems that characterize contemporary counseling and psychotherapy. Hansen provides a scholarly overview of trends in talk therapy through a cultural, historical, empirical, and philosophical examination of mental health care.

Author Biography

James T. Hansen is professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.