Abstract
The critical analysis of psychotherapy, the core intervention of the American social clinic, indicts each link in the chain of American social welfare policy making: the inability of the social clinic itself to achieve the remission or prevention of mental and emotional disorders; the community of scholars that fails to offer scientifically credible tests of its outcomes; and the American culture that endorses the affirming myths of the social clinic thus encouraging the distortions of its research community and the fecklessness of its interventions. Psychotherapy rather than care and the failure of critical psychology: Mental and emotional problems remain embedded in society and not amenable to isolation for clinical treatment.
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Epstein, W.M. (2019). Psychotherapy and Society. In: Psychotherapy and the Social Clinic in the United States. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32750-7_5
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