The Ethical Treatment of Depression : Autonomy Through Psychotherapy /

Is there is a moral imperative on physicians to refer patients with mental depression for psychotherapy rather that treating the ailment with drugs? Psychotherapy, in particular cognitive behavior therapy, promotes autonomy and it is the loss of autonomy, argues Paul Biegler, that is at the heart of...

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Main Author: Biegler, Paul, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Series:Philosophical psychopathology : disorders of the mind
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