De-Medicalizing Misery II (eBook, PDF)

Society, Politics and the Mental Health Industry
Redaktion: Speed, E.; Rapley, M.; Moncrieff, J.

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 283
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137304667
• Artikelnr.: 41835957

Autorenporträt

Richard Bentall, University of Liverpool, UK Joan Busfield, University of Essex, UK Jacqui Dillon, Independent Scholar, UK Roar Fosse, Vestre Viken State Hospital Trust, Norway Frank Furedi, University of Kent, UK David Harper, University of East London, UK David Healy, Bangor University, UK Lucy Johnstone, Psychologist, UK Eleanor Longden, Independent Scholar, UK Alec McHoul, Independent Scholar, Australia David Pilgrim, University of Liverpool, UK Matthew Smith, University of Strathclyde, UK Sami Timimi, Psychiatrist, UK Martin Whitely, Independent Scholar, Australia Dora Whittuck, Psychologist, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Misery, Meaning and Politics 1. Is it Justice? Therapeutic History and the Politics of Recognition; Frank Furedi 2. Mentality of Morality? Membership Categorization, Multiple Meanings and Mass Murder; Mark Rapley, David McCarthy and Alec McHoul 3. Uncovering Recovery: the Resistible Rise of Recovery and Resilience; David Harper and Ewen Speed 4. The Failure of Modern Psychiatry and Some Prospects of Scientific Progress Offered by Critical Realism; David Pilgrim 5. The Construction of Psychiatric Diagnoses: the Case of Adult ADHD; Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Rapley and Sami Timimi 6. The Hyperactive State: ADHD in Historical Perspective; Matthew Smith 7. The Medicalization of 'Ups and Downs:' The Marketing of the New Bipolar Disorder; Joanna Moncrieff 8. 'It Made Me Realise That's How I Was': Identity Management by People with Diagnoses of 'Learning Disability' and 'Mental Illness'; Dora Whittuck 9. ADHD: How a Lie 'Medicated' Often Enough Became the Truth; Martin Whitely 10 .Transforming Misery into Sickness: The Genealogy of Depression in the DSM; Joan Busfield 11. The Cardinals of Psychiatry; David Healy 12. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: A History of Critiques of Psychiatric Classification Systems; Craig Newnes 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 Symptoms; John Read, Richard P. Bentall and Roar Fosse 14. Trauma, Dissociation Attachment and Neuroscience: A New Paradigm for Understanding Severe Mental Illness ; Jacqui Dillon, Lucy Johnstone and Eleanor Longden ?

Rezensionen

'the quality of the chapters is consistently good, and in many cases outstanding... collections like De-Medicalizing Misery II, with their attention to both critiques and solutions, will continually be needed' Laura K. Kerr, PsycCRITIQUES