Acknowledgements
With grateful thanks to Bill Epstein, for coping with the vagaries of a transatlantic telephone interview; to Mike Tuppling for help with transcribing, and without whose technical assistance the interview upon which this piece is based would not have been possible; and last but not least, to Paul Kelly for his thoughtful editorial comments.
Notes on contributors
William Epstein is Professor of Social Work at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His books include The Civil Divine: Psychotherapy as Religion in America (2006), Democracy without Decency: Good Citizenship and the War on Poverty (2010) and Empowerment as Ceremony (2013). His latest publication, The Masses Are the Ruling Classes, was published earlier this year.
Paul Moloney is a Counselling Psychologist based in Shropshire, UK. He works in the British National Health Service, is an associate lecturer at the University of Birmingham, a member of the Midlands Psychology Group (a collective of academic and therapeutic psychologists dedicated to questioning the scientific and political assumptions behind much of mainstream psychological practice) and author of The Therapy Industry: The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure, and Why It Doesn’t Work (Pluto).