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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2011, 2011
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | XIV, 305 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780230342507 |