De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition

Rapley, M.; Moncrieff, J.; Dillon, J.

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. The book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human, not medical, experiences.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-10-12

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780230307919

DOI: 10.1057/9780230342507

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 305