David Smail
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David Smail
Power, Interest and Psychology
Argues that to take ourselves seriously as social beings, embodied in a real world over which as individuals we have very little influence, is by no means grounds for despair; rather, it encourages modesty, appreciation of good fortune, compassion and recognition of our common humanity.
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David Smail
Illusion and Reality
This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual sufferer.
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David Smail
How to Survive Without Psychotherapy
This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the 'treatment' of mental illness.
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David Smail
Taking Care
Taking Care established the author as an important social and political analyst whose background happened to be in clinical psychology. In this work the author develops the analysis of mental illness, and psychology in general, in the contexts of society, power and interest.
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David Smail
Origins of Unhappiness
It is the main argument of this book that emotional and psychological distress is often brought about through the operation of social-environmental powers which have their origin at a considerable distance from those ultimately subjected to them.
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