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James Davies offers an extremely original and insightful approach that restores the crucial role of suffering in human development. He draws from anthropology, philosophy, and psychology, weaving a rich narrative that deserves to be widely read. This fluid and engagingly written book takes us back to the exciting decades of Szasz, Laing, and others, and to the revolutionary assertion that the cause of suffering can be attributed to an excessively oppressive social environment. It urges us to move away from the pathologizing foundations of most current therapies and to resist poorly thought-out theorizing. Such a prompt invigorates the critical stance on what we do as therapists and places the book alongside classics like Philip Rieff's "The Triumph of the Therapeutic" and Ian Craib's "The Importance of Disappointment.".

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