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. This book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human, not medical, experiences.

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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. This book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human, not medical, experiences.

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Imprint

Palgrave Macmillan

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

November 2011

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

2011

Editors

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Dimensions

216 x 138 x 18mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

305

ISBN-13

978-0-230-30791-9

Barcode

9780230307919

Categories

LSN

0-230-30791-4



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