A Pessimistic View of Mental Health

• Utgivningsdatum: 2027-02-15
• Mått: 174 x 246 x undefined mm
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 300
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781041388364

• Kulturvetenskap
• Psykologiska teorier och skolor
• Psykiatri
• Filosofiska discipliner

Colin Feltham is an Emeritus Professor of Counselling at Sheffield Hallam University, with a prolific publishing career spanning over three decades and more than 30 books to his credit. Known for his reputation as a critical thinker in the field of psychotherapy, he has consistently challenged conventional assumptions and fostered deeper inquiry into the discipline.His current work aims to consolidate and extend this tradition of problematizing, offering a comprehensive exploration of the enduring challenges and evolving narratives in mental health and psychotherapy.

“A sweeping and badly needed critique of psychology’s optimistic mythology of cure. Feltham asks what follows once suffering and psychological disturbance are understood as enduring conditions of human life, radically undermining psychology’s confidence in its power to explain and repair us. For me, this is an extraordinarily important book, and very close to the book on psychology I have been longing for for a long time.”- Julie Reshe, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and author of Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead and Negative Essays.“It is clear that our current approach in the West to the problem of melancholy has largely failed to capitalize on the wealth of discoveries made by our predecessors. Feltham here offers a much-needed reassessment of the topic that is both cutting-edge and rooted in the wisdom of our deepest thinkers.”- Ryan L. Showler, Translator and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, Illinois "Colin Feltham’s latest book is an absorbing commentary on the epistemological problems of psychiatry and psychotherapy faced with the stark realities of human suffering. This book compresses philosophical critique and social commentary with deeply personal reflections on his own journey through the labyrinth of psychotherapeutic modalities. Pessimism wins out over optimism but only because it is a better foundation in understanding the grim limits of existence. A pessimist relinquishes the quest for happiness, though with the consolation of the truths found in humor, friendship, kindness and tenderness." - Paul Carlson, Ethics teacher at Seattle University's Institute of Public Service

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