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De-Medicalizing Misery Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition /

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rapley, M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Moncrieff, J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dillon, J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Subjects:
Critical psychology.
Clinical psychology.
Psychoanalysis.
Social medicine.
Nursing.
Social work.
Critical Psychology.
Clinical Psychology.
Medical Sociology.
Social Work.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230342507
Summary: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.
Physical Description:XIV, 305 p. online resource.
ISBN:9780230342507

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