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Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture - Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling and Psychotherapy (Paperback)
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Meaning Systems and Mental Health Culture - Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling and Psychotherapy (Paperback)
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The creation of meaning is a central feature of human life. The
full spectrum of experience, from joyful, devoted living to
unbearable psychological suffering, is orchestrated by the meanings
that people endorse and create. Meaning Systems and Mental Health
Culture: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling and
Psychotherapy examines the intersection of meaning systems, mental
health culture, and counseling and psychotherapy. By viewing mental
health care through the lenses of culture and history, James T.
Hansen argues that a defining element of mental health culture,
throughout various eras, is the relative value placed on meaning
systems. Contemporary mental health care, with its idealization of
symptom-based diagnostics, biological reductionism, and the medical
model, severely devalues meaning systems. This devaluation has led
modern counselors and psychotherapists to largely abandon the
factors that should be central to their work. Meaning Systems and
Mental Health Culture weaves together empirical, historical,
cultural, and philosophical perspectives to raise awareness of the
need for counseling and psychotherapy to revalue meaning systems,
even while operating within a culture that disregards them.
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