De-Medicalizing Misery II [electronic resource] : Society, Politics and the Mental Health Industry /
Speed, E.editor.
Moncrieff, J.editor.
Rapley, M.editor.
This book extends the critical scope of the previous volume, De-Medicalizing Misery, into a wider social and political context, developing the critique of the psychiatrization of Western society. It explores the contemporary mental health landscape and poses possible alternative solutions to the continuing issues of emotional distress.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface: Misery, Meaning and Politics; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Is it Justice? Therapeutic History and the Politics of Recognition; 2 Mentality or Morality? Membership Categorization, Multiple Meanings and Mass Murder; 3 Uncovering Recovery: The Resistible Rise of Recovery and Resilience; 4 The Failure of Modern Psychiatry and Some Prospects of Scientific Progress Offered by Critical Realism; 5 The Construction of Psychiatric Diagnoses: The Case of Adult ADHD; 6 The Hyperactive State: ADHD in Historical Perspective
7 The Medicalization of 'Ups and Downs': The Marketing of the New Bipolar Disorder8 'It Made Me Realize that's How I Was': Identity Management by People with Diagnoses of 'Learning Disability' and 'Mental Illness'; 9 ADHD: How a Lie 'Medicated' Often Enough Became the Truth; 10 Transforming Misery into Sickness: The Genealogy of Depression in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual; 11 The Cardinals of Psychiatry; 12 The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: A History of Critiques of Psychiatric Classification Systems
13 Time to Abandon the Bio-bio-bio Model of Psychosis: Exploring the Epigenetic and Psychological Mechanisms by which Adverse Life Events Lead to Psychotic Symptoms14 Trauma, Dissociation, Attachment and Neuroscience: A New Paradigm for Understanding Severe Mental Distress; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book extends the critical scope of the previous volume, De-Medicalizing Misery, into a wider social and political context, developing the critique of the psychiatrization of Western society. It explores the contemporary mental health landscape and poses possible alternative solutions to the continuing issues of emotional distress.
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