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This work, which questions the medical model of psychiatry as the basis of psychotherapy, seeks to help professionals return their field to an activity that is more helpful to clients, more professional, more scientific, more moral, and more psychosocial in orientation. The difficulties facing practicing psychotherapists, the causes of the problems, and a framework to guide efforts to deal with these concerns are discussed in hopes that the uneasiness of psychologists about the present direction of the field can be reduced and changed.

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• Preface to the Paperback Edition
• Introduction: Modernism and Postmodernism Psycho""therapy"" and the Medical Model
• Philosophical and Scientific Considerations
• Definitions and Problems Philosophical and Scientific Considerations
• Science and Humanism Philosophical and Scientific Considerations
• Biology, Psychology and Sociology
• From Philosophy to Psychology Human Adaptation
• Individual Styles of Adaptation
• ""Diagnosis"" I
• ""Diagnosis"" II
• Psycho""therapy"" I
• Psycho""therapy"" II
• Psycho""therapy"" III
• References
• Index

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CHOICE Review

Simon has written a book attacking the medical model of psychotherapy in a systematic and thoroughgoing fashion. Thomas S. Szasz's Myth of Mental Illness (1972) and much of R.D. Laing's work have made similar points; however, Simon not only challenges the medical model, he is fairly clear about a model that could replace it for treating troubled people. His logic is not always compelling, and some of the points he makes are strained. Even so, this work is an important one that deserves to be read and to be acquired by libraries with adequate psychological holdings. This well-written, provocative, and intrinsically interesting book is appropriate for undergraduate students and is strongly recommended. M. W. York; University of New Haven

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LAURENCE SIMON is Professor of Psychology at Kingsborough Community College of CUNY, Chief Pyschologist at Flushing Hospital Mental Health Clinic, and in private practice. He has written several articles and books on psychotherapy and the development of human personality.