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Emotional Abuse and Other Psychic Harms: Invisible Wounds and their Histories
Marian Allsopp
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Description for Emotional Abuse and Other Psychic Harms: Invisible Wounds and their Histories
Hardcover. Maps the emergence of a powerful psycho-social idea out of its historical and social circumstances, as the concept of injury or trauma has moved, over the twentieth century, from the description of a physical, visible lesion to a more abstract, psychic harm - often thought of as an 'invisible wound'. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMQ; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 468.
Maps the emergence of a powerful psycho-social idea out of its historical and social circumstances, as the concept of injury or trauma has moved, over the twentieth century, from the description of a physical, visible lesion to a more abstract, psychic harm often thought of as an 'invisible wound'.
Maps the emergence of a powerful psycho-social idea out of its historical and social circumstances, as the concept of injury or trauma has moved, over the twentieth century, from the description of a physical, visible lesion to a more abstract, psychic harm often thought of as an 'invisible wound'.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230303027
SKU
V9780230303027
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99-15
About Marian Allsopp
Marian Allsopp worked as a journalist and economist before having children. In the 1980s she was a family therapist and systems consultant in the adolescent ward of the Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK. She took a research post in the early 1990s at Nottingham University, UK, looking at social workers' attitudes to risk. From 1997–2003 she was a part-time Lecturer at ... Read more
Reviews for Emotional Abuse and Other Psychic Harms: Invisible Wounds and their Histories
"Writing about the 'psy' industry's promulgation of the concept of 'emotional abuse', [Dr.Allsopp] offers us a genealogical account of its familial connections with other branches of the vast 'psy' world [...] She makes us consider how the state has become a kind of grand family supervisor - with political discourse turning away from social and economic conditions, and towards the ... Read more