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Title De-medicalizing misery : psychiatry, psychology and the human condition / edited by Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Rapley, Jacqui Dillon
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) : illustrations
Contents Notes on Contributors -- Preface; R. Dallos -- Carving Nature at its Joints? DSM and the Medicalization of Everyday Life; M. Rapley, J. Moncrieff & J. Dillon -- Dualisms and the Myth of Mental Illness; P. Thomas & P. Bracken -- Making the World Go Away, and How Psychology and Psychiatry Benefit; M. Boyle -- Cultural Diversity and Racism: An Historical Perspective; S. Fernando -- The Social Context of Paranoia; D.J. Harper -- From 'Bad Character' to BPD: The Medicalization of 'Personality Disorder'; J. Bourne -- Medicalizing Masculinity; S. Timimi -- Can Traumatic Events Traumatise People? Trauma, Madness and 'Psychosis'; L. Johnstone -- Children Who Witness Violence at Home; A. Vetere -- Discourses of Acceptance and Resistance: Speaking Out About Psychiatry; E. Speed -- The Personal Is the Political; J. Dillon -- 'I'm Just, You Know, Joe Bloggs': The Management of Parental Responsibility for First-Episode Psychosis; C. Coulter & M. Rapley -- The Myth of the Antidepressant: An Historical Analysis; J. Moncrieff -- Antidepressants and the Placebo Response; I. Kirsch -- Why Were Doctors so Slow to Recognise Antidepressant Discontinuation Problems?; D. Double -- Toxic Psychology; C. Newnes -- Psychotherapy: Illusion With No Future?; D. Smail -- The Psychologization of Torture; N. Patel -- What Is To Be Done?; J. Moncrieff, J. Dillon & M. Rapley -- Figure: Papers Using Term 'Antidepressant' On Medline 1957-1965 -- Index
Machine generated contents note: -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface; R. Dallos -- Carving Nature at its Joints? DSM and the Medicalization of Everyday Life; M. Rapley, J. Moncrieff & J. Dillon -- Dualisms and the Myth of Mental Illness; P. Thomas & P. Bracken -- Making the World Go Away, and How Psychology and Psychiatry Benefit; M. Boyle -- Cultural Diversity and Racism: An Historical Perspective; S. Fernando -- The Social Context of Paranoia; D.J. Harper -- From 'Bad Character' to BPD: The Medicalization of 'Personality Disorder'; J. Bourne -- Medicalizing Masculinity; S. Timimi -- Can Traumatic Events Traumatise People? Trauma, Madness and 'Psychosis'; L. Johnstone -- Children Who Witness Violence at Home; A. Vetere -- Discourses of Acceptance and Resistance: Speaking Out About Psychiatry; E. Speed -- The Personal Is the Political; J. Dillon -- 'I'm Just, You Know, Joe Bloggs': The Management of Parental Responsibility for First-Episode Psychosis; C. Coulter & M. Rapley -- The Myth of the Antidepressant: An Historical Analysis; J. Moncrieff -- Antidepressants and the Placebo Response; I. Kirsch -- Why Were Doctors so Slow to Recognise Antidepressant Discontinuation Problems?; D. Double -- Toxic Psychology; C. Newnes -- Psychotherapy: Illusion With No Future?; D. Smail -- The Psychologization of Torture; N. Patel -- What Is To Be Done?; J. Moncrieff, J. Dillon & M. Rapley -- Figure: Papers Using Term 'Antidepressant' On Medline 1957-1965 -- Index
Summary Thomas Szasz (1960) suggested that the myth of 'mental illness' functions to 'render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflict in human relations'. The medicalization of distress enables the mental health professions to manage the human suffering that they are confronted with, and also the suspicion that there is little that they can do to help. But the medicalization of misery and madness renders people unable to comprehend their experiences in ordinary, meaningful terms. In this collection we restore to everyday discourse a way of understanding distress that, unlike contemporary psychiatry and psychology, recognises and respects the essential humanness of the human condition. De-medicalizing Misery is a shorthand term for this project. The book resists the psychiatrization and psychologization of human experience, and seeks to place what are essentially moral and political ₆ not medical - matters back at the centre of our understanding of human suffering
"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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Psychiatry -- Philosophy.
Psychiatry
Psychiatry.
Abnormal psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- General.
Health and Fitness.
Psychiatry -- Philosophy
Psychiatry.
Abnormal psychology.
Health and Wellbeing.
Form Electronic book
Author Moncrieff, Joanna, 1966-
Rapley, Mark
Dillon, Jacqui
ISBN 9780230342507
0230342507