CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami

Name: CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural TsunamiManagerialism, Politics and the Corruptions of Science\nAuthor(s): Farhad Dalal\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138313064, 978-1138313064\nSynopsis\nIs CBT all it claims to be? The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics, and the Corruptions of Science provides a powerful critique of CBTs understanding of human suffering, as well as the apparent scientific basis underlying it. The book argues that CBT psychology has fetishized measurement to such a degree that it has come to believe that only the countable counts. It suggests that the so-called science of CBT is not just \""bad science\"" but \""corrupt science\"". The rise of CBT has been fostered by neoliberalism and the phenomenon of New Public Management. The book not only critiques the science, psychology and philosophy of CBT, but also challenges the managerialist mentality and its hyper-rational understand.