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De-Medicalizing Misery : Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition /

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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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Dillon, Jacqui (Editor), Moncrieff, Joanna (Editor), Rapley, Mark (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:
Psychology.
Clinical Psychology.
Critical Psychology.
Medical Sociology.
Nursing.
Psychoanalysis.
Social work.
Clinical psychology.
Critical psychology.
Social medicine.
Social service.
Electronic books.
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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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 305 pages)
ISBN:9780230342507
DOI:10.1057/9780230342507