Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy: From Paradox to Wonder

by John Heaton

The ever-expanding therapies available and many developments in psychology and psychiatry are based on theoretical assumptions that the mind is some sort of empirical object. But practices based on this assumption have not yielded results consistent with evidence-based practice. Using the work of Wittgenstein, John Heaton challenges this notion of theoretical authority by showing how it is that children come to be initiated into speaking and perceiving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137367687
• ISBN13: 9781137367686
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"