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Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy

Part of the Culture, Mind, and Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230618350

ISBN: 978-1-349-37597-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 7, 2015

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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American Culture in Cross-cultural Context

Throop, Elizabeth A.

Pages: 1 –23

[The American dominant cultural elevation of the individual self as the sole locus of motivation, perception, thought, emotion, and behavior is reflected in social policy, both as officially enacted and as understood popularly. We see this in policy dealing with family life, sexuality,...
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Psychotherapy and Hyperindividualism

Throop, Elizabeth A.

Pages: 25 –40

[American society relies on psychotherapy and its language to discuss and solve social problems. This solution, however, is an impoverished and superficial one. In this chapter, I demonstrate how psychotherapy is a logical, if unjust, American cultural practice; certainly it fits well within...
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Poverty Is Just a State of Mind

Throop, Elizabeth A.

Pages: 41 –57

[American dominant culture understands poverty as a defect of character, not a result of a structurally unjust economic system. People who are poor are not poor because they lack money. They are poor because, in America’s dominant culture, there is something wrong with them emotionally, morally,...
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The Kids Aren’t All Right

Throop, Elizabeth A.

Pages: 59 –79

[In 1996, two teenaged boys took assault weapons to school and massacred twelve students and one teacher before turning the weapons on themselves. In all, fifteen people died at Columbine High School. Despite the fact that school violence, largely perpetrated by African Americans and Latinos, had...
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Those Who Can’t Teach

Throop, Elizabeth A.

Pages: 81 –100

[The sense of entitlement carried by young people, and the concomitant inability to recognize that they are entitled to far less than they have been led to believe, is reflected in our educational system. My generation has failed its children miserably, producing ignorant and illiterate children....
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The Sacrifice of Our Children

Throop, Elizabeth A.

Pages: 101 –116

[It would not be an exaggeration to say (particularly but not only through an examination child welfare system and our child-rearing practices) that America’s treatment of children is a clear outlier in terms of our treatment of children. Our child welfare system is appallingly cruel, highly...
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Still Crazy after All These Years

Throop, Elizabeth A.

Pages: 117 –139

[It’s probably not an exaggeration to say that a new “mental illness” is defined every month or so. From Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to Relationship Dysfunction, Americans are diagnosed right and left as having serious emotional disorders. Those of us who deny that we’re sick are in...
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Color Blind Hearts and Minds

Throop, Elizabeth A.

Pages: 141 –156

[There is an elephant in the room that is this book. We have danced daintily around an enormous truth that is interwoven with all the various other truths making up the suffering of so many in this country. And that gigantic reality is what is glossed as “race” in this country. The fact of...
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Conclusion

Throop, Elizabeth A.

Pages: 157 –169

[What then do we do? If I am correct, if American culture is dominated by the language of psychotherapy and a commitment to hyperindividualism, what solutions are possible? This language pervades so many parts of our culture. It permeates religion. It is part and parcel of our medical system. It...

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