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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"--