Counseling and the therapeutic state

"This book examines the nature and scope of counseling and psychotherapeutic practice in modern society. Although this entails a close analysis of the social organization of counseling within medicine, psychology, and the helping professions, the book also looks at the persistence of the therapeutic ethos within American and western culture more generally, that is, within the context of families, communities, schools, churches, the courts, and mass media."--BOOK JACKET.