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By Philip Cushman. 414 pp. Reading, Mass., Addison–Wesley, 1995. $25. ISBN 0-201-62643-8.

Deconstructionism is a philosophical approach to knowledge that has come to have a profound influence on American intellectual life, so it is not surprising that the tools of deconstructionist thought should be brought to bear on the history of psychotherapy. This book is an intriguing synthesis of history, philosophy, medical politics, and psychotherapeutic theory and practice.

In Constructing the Self, Constructing America, Philip Cushman, a psychologist at the California School of Professional Psychology in Alameda, contends that psychotherapy as practiced in the United States is best understood as a cultural artifact that has, in general, overemphasized individuality and the individual . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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