Book 2011
De-medicalizing misery
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Psychiatry
- Philosophy
- Psychiatrie
- Philosophie
- Mental illness
- Psychology, pathological
"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"--