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Publication Date: 1973
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Psychotherapy as a Means of Social Control
Hurvitz, Nathan
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 40, 2, 232-239, Apr 73
The failure of the manifest purpose of such psychotherapy suggests that it has a more important latent purpose, one that is in accord with the values of American capitalist society. It is proposed that this latent purpose is to serve as a means of social control, exercised through the ideological and clinical practice aspects of such psychotherapy, with each aspect reinforcing the other. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Conformity, Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Social Adjustment, Social Behavior
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