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Beschreibung
This book shows how scientific and psychotherapeutic practices change into worthless rituals called by the famous physicist, Richard Feynman, "cargo cult." It is a must-read for everybody who is interested in psychology, who is studying or intends to study it, but also for present and potential clients of psychotherapists and parents of mentally-disabled children. Readers will learn which parts of psychology and therapy are cargo-cult-like and which are reliable. This book is the second part of trilogy devoted to the dark side of psychology. The first volume was published under the title "Psychology Gone Wrong: The Dark Sides of Science and Therapy", also released by BrownWalker Press.
This book shows how scientific and psychotherapeutic practices change into worthless rituals called by the famous physicist, Richard Feynman, "cargo cult." It is a must-read for everybody who is interested in psychology, who is studying or intends to study it, but also for present and potential clients of psychotherapists and parents of mentally-disabled children. Readers will learn which parts of psychology and therapy are cargo-cult-like and which are reliable. This book is the second part of trilogy devoted to the dark side of psychology. The first volume was published under the title "Psychology Gone Wrong: The Dark Sides of Science and Therapy", also released by BrownWalker Press.
Über den Autor
Tomasz Witkowski, Ph. D., professor of psychology at University College of Professional Education in Wroclaw, Poland. He is an author of several dozen since papers, several hundred popular science articles, several screenplays, stories and seventeen books. He specializes in debunking pseudoscience in psychology, psychotherapy and everyday life. Witkowski's books include Fades, Fakes, and Frauds, Shaping psychology, Psychology Led Astray, Psychology Gone Wrong. The Polish Rationalist Association awarded him the title of The Rationalist of the Year 2010.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Grundlagen (Methodik & Statistik)
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781627346092
ISBN-10: 1627346090
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Witkowski, Tomasz
Hersteller: Brown Walker Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Tomasz Witkowski
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.07.2016
Gewicht: 0,407 kg
Artikel-ID: 103576502