De-medicalizing misery

By Mark Rapley, Joanna Moncrieff, Jacqui Dillon

Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Illness, Psychiatrie, Psychiatry, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Mental illness, Psychology, pathological, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, Philosophie, Philosophy

Description: "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"--