HOW TO SURVIVE WITHOUT PSYCHOTHERAPY

Book ID/图书代码： 02890016B90606

English Summary/英文概要： This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book’s aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of ’fault’ for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the ’treatment’ of mental illness.It is not exactly a self-help book because it is a false claim of any ’treatment’ of mental illness that ’cure’ can be brought about by exercise of will. Much of what causes mental distress is lack of power and resource, outside the control of the sufferer. Surviving without psychotherapy involves the appreciation of several things. First, the limited nature of therapeutic assistance - whilst clarification and support may help the sufferer understand his/her predicament and encourage the use of what resources the sufferer has, therapy cannot change the distal root causes of distress. Second, that only socio-political solutions can address some of the most powerful causes of distress, e.g., redundancy, housing and poverty. In sounding a cautionary note about psychoanalysis, Smail observes that mental distress is far more about money than sex.David Smail analyses the claims of ’treatments’ of mental distress. He explains why willpower alone cannot remove symptoms. There is discussion about resources open to an individual in positioning themselves against stressors to minimise the effect of the same. That said, feelings of stress and anxiety are regularly an entirely rational response to the sufferer’s predicament.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书直接针对受到心理疾病困扰的患者，本书旨在消除患者的痛苦压力，并揭开了围绕心理疾病治疗的一些实践。确切的说，这并不是一本自我帮助读物，因为在治疗心理疾病中，任何声称运用意志力可以促进“治愈”的说法都是错误的。大部分导致精神压抑的原因都是因为缺乏力量和资源，而这是患者无法控制的。《如何不靠心理治疗活下来》包含了对以下几点的评估：1. 治疗帮助的局限性；2. 只有社会-政治解决方案才能解决压抑的根源。作者David Smail分析了声称可以治疗心理压抑的疗法，解释了为何单靠意志力是无法消除症状的。也就是说，感受到压力和焦虑是对于患者所处的困境的一种常规的理智反应。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：“David Smail的分析、措辞构成了独立学术界传统的经典之作。他将传统的有关心理治疗的假设转换为人类问题的结构性决定因素。作为一名左翼人士，他是左翼党派并不那么教条主义，变得更加中肯。”（William M. Epstein，作家）

“David Smail表示，如果我们要减轻自身的不快，那么除了改变我们身处的环境，别无他法。David的作品是一笔宝贵的文学财富，也是为那些受到压榨的、边缘化群体发声的证明，同时，也为那些希望了解社会错误、试图改善社会的人士点燃了一盏灯。”

“David Smail是一名有建设意义的批评家。他的著作总是让我反思，充满希望，让我感到欣慰的是，有那么一个人，真正了解人生的意义，了解幸福的意义。”（Dr Tana Dineen，作家。）

"David Smail’s analyses, commitments and elegant prose comprise classic works in the tradition of independent scholarship. He translated the traditional assumptions of psychotherapy into the structural and situational determinants of human problems. He was a psychologist who argued against psychology and came to see the barriers to social progress institutionalized within society itself. A man of the left, he made the left less doctrinaire and more relevant. He is greatly missed." (William M. Epstein, author of Empowerment as Ceremony and Psychotherapy as Religion)

"David Smail showed that if we want to ease our unhappiness then there is no other way but to change the world in which we live, beginning with the illusions perpetrated by the psychology industry. David’s work forms a rich intellectual legacy and a testament to a man who spoke up for the most oppressed and marginalised. It will also provide a beacon for anyone who wishes to understand what is wrong with our society and to struggle towards making it a better one."

"David Smail was a constructive critic. With finely tuned precision, he cut deeply into what is wrong with psychotherapy and, with wisdom, he pointed to another way to deal with the feelings of despair, anxiety, and depression we experience in contemporary life. He was a genuine psychologist who applied the craft skillfully. Reading what he has written is, for want of a better term, "therapeutic." His books always leave me thoughtful and hopeful, comforted by the sense that here was a man who actually understood something of life and had a grasp of what happiness really means." (Dr Tana Dineen, author of Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is Doing to People)

About the Author/作者介绍： David Smail是一名临床心理学咨询师，供职于NHS，并在诺丁汉大学担任临床心理学特聘教授。

David Smail was a consultant clinical psychologist in the NHS and Special Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Nottingham.

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