De-medicalizing misery: psychiatry, psychology and the human condition

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a 'mental health' system that doesno justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based 'mental illness' definesour present. The book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human,not medical, experiences. MARK RAPLEY is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, UK. He is the author of 'The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability', 'Quality of Life Research' and, with Susan Hansen and Alec McHoul, 'Beyond Help: A Consumers' Guide to Psychology'. . JOANNA MONCRIEFF is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mental Health Sciences at University College London, UK and a Practising Consultant Psychiatrist at the North East London Foundation Trust. She has spent her academic career re-evaluating the nature and efficacy of psychiatric drugs and exploring the history and politics of psychiatry. She is the co-chair of the Critical Psychiatry Network, and has campaigned against the dominance of the biomedical approach to psychiatry, the extension of psychiatric coercion and the influence of the pharmaceutical industry, in alliance with service user groups. She is the author of 'The Myth of the Chemical Cure' (Palgrave Macmillan), 'A Straight Talking Introduction to PsychiatricDrugs', and numerous papers and book chapters. JACQUI DILLON is the National Chair of the Hearing Voices Network, UK, and a Director of Intervoice b the International Network for Training, Education and Research into Hearing Voices.She is a campaigner, international speaker and trainer specialising in hearing voices, psychosis, dissociation and trauma. She is the co-editor of 'Living with Voices: An Anthology of 50 Voice Hearers' Stories of Recovery'. She has published numerous articles and papers, is on the editorial board of the journal 'Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches' and is a member of the collective for 'Asylum, The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry'. INDICE: 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 -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-30791-9
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés