De-medicalizing misery
Subtitle: psychiatry, psychology and the human condition
By: edited by Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Rapley, Jacqui Dillon
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230307919
Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology; Psychiatry; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body; Philosophy; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Illness; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health
Description: "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. This book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human, not medical, experiences"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Preface; R.Dallos; title: Carving Nature at its Joints? DSM and the Medicalization of Everyday Life; M.Rapley, J.Moncrieff&J.Dillon; title: Dualisms and the Myth of Mental Illness; P.Thomas&P.Bracken; title: Making the World Go Away, and How Psychology and Psychiatry Benefit; M.Boyle; title: Cultural Diversity and Racism: An Historical Perspective; S.Fernando; title: The Social Context of Paranoia; D.J.Harper; title: From 'Bad Character' to BPD: The Medicalization of 'Personality Disorder'; J.Bourne; title: Medicalizing Masculinity; S.Timimi; title: Can Traumatic Events Traumatise People? Trauma, Madness and 'Psychosis'; L.Johnstone; title: Children Who Witness Violence at Home; A.Vetere; title: Discourses of Acceptance and Resistance: Speaking Out About Psychiatry; E.Speed; title: The Personal Is the Political; J.Dillon; title: 'I'm Just, You Know, Joe Bloggs': The Management of Parental Responsibility for First-Episode Psychosis; C.Coulter&M.Rapley; title: The Myth of the Antidepressant: An Historical Analysis; J.Moncrieff; title: Antidepressants and the Placebo Response; I.Kirsch; title: Why Were Doctors so Slow to Recognise Antidepressant Discontinuation Problems?; D.Double; title: Toxic Psychology; C.Newnes; title: Psychotherapy: Illusion With No Future?; D.Smail; title: The Psychologization of Torture; N.Patel; title: What Is To Be Done?; J.Moncrieff, J.Dillon&M.Rapley; title: Figure: Papers Using Term 'Antidepressant' On Medline 1957-1965; title: Index.