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What Is Mental Illness?

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Description for What Is Mental Illness? Paperback. According to a major health survey, nearly half of all Americans have been mentally ill at some point in their lives - more than a quarter in the last year. Can this be true? The author defends the careful approach of describing disorders by patterns of symptoms that can be seen, and shows how often the system medicalizes everyday emotional life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JMP; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.

According to a major health survey, nearly half of all Americans have been mentally ill at some point in their lives—more than a quarter in the last year. Can this be true? What exactly does it mean, anyway? What’s a disorder, and what’s just a struggle with real life?

This lucid and incisive book cuts through both professional jargon and polemical hot air, to describe the intense political and intellectual struggles over what counts as a “real” disorder, and what goes into the “DSM,” the psychiatric bible. Is schizophrenia a disorder? Absolutely. Is homosexuality? It was—till gay rights activists ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674066205
SKU
V9780674066205
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About Richard J. McNally
Richard J. McNally is Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at Harvard University.

Reviews for What Is Mental Illness?
The meaning of madness has confounded us for centuries. Now, we learn that half the population meets criteria for mental disorders. In this lucid and erudite book, Richard McNally tackles the difficult questions of science, philosophy, and politics that bear on this issue. His answers will have a great impact on the study of psychopathology.
David H. Barlow, ... Read more

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