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Joanna Moncrieff - De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition - 9780230307919 - V9780230307919
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De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition

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Description for De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Rapley, Mark; Moncrieff, Joanna; Dillon, Jacqui. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 figures. BIC Classification: JKSM; JMP; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
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.

Product Details

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
407g
Number of Pages
305
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230307919
SKU
V9780230307919
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Joanna Moncrieff
JAMES BOURNE Clinical psychologist and is currently working London, UK MARY BOYLE Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, UK PATRICK BRACKEN Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of Mental Health Services in West Cork, Ireland CARLTON COULTER Clinical Psychologist who lives and works in East London, UK RUDI DALLOS Professor ... Read more

Reviews for De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition
'Despite longstanding awareness of the limitations of the medical model when applied to difficulties of human behavior and adjustment, the fields of psychiatry and psychology continue to accede to the pressures of medicine and the drug industry in their conceptualization of these human realities. Ironically, however, this medical model, eager as it is to fit so much of people's experience ... Read more

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