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1 online resource (214 pages) |
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880-01 Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction: hyper-rationality; Once upon a time in the west; Physics envy: only the countable counts; The Neem tree; Rationality, Truth and Madness; Neoliberalist efficiencies; Command and control; The virtues of CBT (and their corruption); The structure of the book; PART I The tsunami; 2 The tsunami begins; Reverse engineering: hugs, tails and unhappy dogs; A chance meeting; The Depression Report: A New Deal for Anxiety and Depression Disorders; 3 The merchants of happiness; Fin de siècle 2000 -- a Baron rewarded |
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880-01/(S Emotions in thought cages10 ΙΑΡΤ: managerialism and the privatization of 'mental health; Top-down design; Customer choice: privatization by another name; Zero hour contracts and payment by results (PbR); Tariff; Cutting cloth; Gaming the tariff; Games IAPT plays; Waiting lists and sausage factories; Problems, problems, problems (with outcome measures); Recovery that is harmful; Managers and clinicians; PART V CBT research; 11 Good science; It is completely reasonable; Hard science: Empiricism; Induction and deduction; 'Hard' truths; Harder science: the Logical Positivists |
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Utilitarianism: the arithmetic of happinessThe science of happiness; Operationalism: the borrowers (borrowing from physics -- again); Mind that (dammed) gap; Genetic determinism: blue genes; Cognitivist social policy: 'blessed are the poor'; PART II Politics of identity formation; 4 Master-myths and identity formation; Absolute beginnings; Terra nullius -- politics; Psychologica nullius -- psychological sciences; Lumpy soup: identity formation; Rationality and power; Norbert Elias and the charisma of power; Norbert Elias and the civilizing process; The function of shame |
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Eliasian gossip mills: The manufacture of oppositesCause and maintenance; 5 The 'psy' wars; Fin de siècle psychoanalysis -- 1900; The behavioural challenge for the psychological throne; The cognitivist challenge for the psychological throne; The US: Psychiatrists vs medics, and the birth of the DSM; The birth of descriptive psychiatry; The advent of the DSM; The invention of PTSD; The creation of the mental disorder called depression; Depression and the depressing politics of science; The (lack of) reliability of the DSM; The UK: psychologists vs medics; PART III Cognitivism; 6 Homo economicus |
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The rise of reasonThe psychology of Homo economicus (with ethics); The psychology of Homo economicus (without ethics); The psychology of Homo economicus (with perverse ethics); Social carnage; Neoliberalism: austerian ethics; Entrenched worklessness; 7 Managerialism; New Public Management; Measurement; Marketizatìon; The fetishization of measurement; The central dogma in practice; PART IV Dispensing CBT; 8 NICE: The Bureaucratization of Science; Happy Feet; NICE; Evidence of the wrong kind; Evidence of the right kind; Two Faces of NICE: not so nice and not nice; 9 CBT treatment; CBT treatment |
| Notes |
Even harder science: Karl Popper |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429855863 |
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0429855869 |
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