De-Medicalizing Misery [electronic resource] : Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition /
Rapley, M.editor.
Moncrieff, J.editor.
Dillon, J.editor.
Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. The book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human, not medical, experiences.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Carving Nature at its Joints? DSM and the Medicalization of Everyday Life; 2 Dualisms and the Myth of Mental Illness; 3 Making the World Go Away, and How Psychology and Psychiatry Benefit; 4 Cultural Diversity and Racism: An Historical Perspective; 5 The Social Context of Paranoia; 6 From Bad Character to BPD: The Medicalization of 'Personality Disorder'; 7 Medicalizing Masculinity; 8 Can Traumatic Events Traumatize People? Trauma, Madness and 'Psychosis'; 9 Children Who Witness Violence at Home
10 Discourses of Acceptance and Resistance: Speaking Out about Psychiatry11 The Personal is The Political; 12 'I'm Just, You Know, Joe Bloggs': The Management of Parental Responsibility for First-episode Psychosis; 13 The Myth of the Antidepressant: An Historical Analysis; 14 Antidepressants and the Placebo Response; 15 Why Were Doctors So Slow to Recognize Antidepressant Discontinuation Problems?; 16 Toxic Psychology; 17 Psychotherapy: Illusion with No Future?; 18 The Psychologization of Torture; 19 What Is to Be Done?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. The book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human, not medical, experiences.
Critical psychology.
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Critical Psychology.
Clinical Psychology.
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