Language of Counseling

I hadn’t read any of this Author prior to this, so as a pastor I thought I would give him a try - and I liked the title and description for this little book. Whilst I agree with a number (if not most) of the points the Author makes concerning language, I found it difficult to like a book that without any evidence makes a bold statement such as Alcoholism is a “fictional disease” (p51). His approach seems too legalistic for my tastes and seems bordering on dangerous with how dismissive it is of modern psychology and medicine when it comes to the struggles people have. At other times the Author seems to prove an argument by quoting himself (as in another book he wrote). Perhaps I am missing something, but I don’t feel inclined to read more from this author...