Bernard Guerin

How to Rethink Mental Illness

The Human Contexts Behind the Labels

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Produktbeschreibung

'How to Rethink Mental Illness' looks at the dominant structures and ideas through we understand mental health and mental illness, and using case studies from a range of indigenous groups, places western models in a broader cultural and philosophical context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9781138207295
• ISBN-10: 1138207292
• Artikelnr.: 69947758

Autorenporträt

Bernard Guerin is Professor of Psychology at the University of South Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Which behaviours are judged as 'mental illness' and why are they called
'mental'? 2. Contextual analysis for mental health 3. Contextualizing
language and thinking (cognition) for mental health 4. Deconstrucing the
DSM. 5. Mental health in modernity 6. Belief and rationality, some thought
disorders, and self-identity 7. Contexts for societal oppression: being
female, poor, or with a refugee background 8. Contexts of devastation:
Indigenous mental health and colonization