What's Wrong with Us? (eBook)

Colin Feltham, MTheol, MSc, PGDipCouns, PGCE, PhD, FBACP, FRSA is Professor of Critical Counselling Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He is course leader for the MA Professional Development in Counselling and Psychotherapy. He is a past editor of the British Journal of Guidance & Counselling. He has written or edited over 20 books and many chapters and papers. His publications include Psychotherapy and its Discontents (edited with Windy Dryden, Open University Press, 1992), Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling (Sage, 1999) and the Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy (edited with Ian Horton, Sage, 2006). He is a member of Crisis:Forum for the Study of Crisis in the 21st century.

About the Author vii

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xv

Chapter 1 What is Anthropathology? 1

Chapter 2 Origins and Development of Anthropathology 43

Chapter 3 Support and Evidence for the Anthropathology Thesis
71

Chapter 4 Anthropathology Today 95

Chapter 5 Mainstream Arenas of Anthropathology Transmission
117

Chapter 6 What's Wrong with Religion? 142

Chapter 7 What's Wrong with the Psychological Therapies?
165

Chapter 8 What's Wrong with 'What's
Wrong?'? Denying and Refuting Anthropathology 192

Chapter 9 Proposed Solutions to Anthropathology 209

Chapter 10 Taking the Anthropathology Thesis Forward 231

Glossary 254

References 263

Index 277

"This book explores wide-ranging causes and manifestations of our
wayward and destructive tendencies." (Journal of Mental
Health, August 2008)

The product of an inquisitive spirit and a fine intellect. As
sombre as the message is, I enjoyed reading it.
(PsycCRITIQUES, February 2008)

"...a timely awakening, educative, reassuring or cathartic for
those in the process of emerging from our culture's trances of
material progressivism..." (Ipnosis, Winter 2007)