Research Catalog

Title

Insane therapy : portrait of a psychotherapy cult / Marybeth F. Ayella.

Author

Ayella, Marybeth F.

Publication

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998.

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Description

viii, 213 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Therapeutic communities > Case studies
• Cults > Psychological aspects
• Social Control, Informal
• Feeling therapy
• Control (Psychology)
• Social control
• Psychotherapy patients > Abuse of > Case studies
• Therapeutic Community
• Persuasive Communication
• Center for Feeling Therapy
• Psychotherapy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The Center for Feeling Therapy -- 3. The Production of Feeling People -- 4. The Intensive -- 5. Careers as Feeling People -- 6. From Culture to Cult -- 7. Coping with Stigma: Rebuilding Lives -- 8. Recognizing Social Influence.

ISBN

• 156639600X (alk. paper)
• 1566396018 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97038146

OCLC

ocm37666390

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries