De-Medicalizing Misery

De-Medicalizing Misery
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9780230342507
ISBN-13 : 0230342507
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Book Synopsis De-Medicalizing Misery by : M. Rapley

Download or read book De-Medicalizing Misery written by M. Rapley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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