I have listed some of the CNS 687 readings below, so that you can get a sense of the types of readings that are assigned in the course. To access a reading, click on the link in the citation.
Freud (1958). Recommendations to physicians practising psycho-analysis. In J. Strachey (Ed. and Trans.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 12, pp. 109-120). London: Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1912).
Gergen, K. (1995b). The healthy, happy human being wears many masks. In W. Anderson (Ed.), The truth about the truth: De-confusing and re-constructing the postmodern world, (pp. 136-150) New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
Masson, J. M. (1994). Against therapy. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press. Chapter Seven: The problem with benevolence: Carl Rogers and humanistic psychology (pp. 229-247).
Szasz, T. (1991). The myth of mental illness. In T. Szasz, Ideology and insanity: Essays on the psychiatric dehumanization of man (pp. 12-24). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
Torrey, E. (1972). What Western psychotherapists can learn from witchdoctors. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 42, 69-76.