1st Edition
How to Rethink Mental Illness The Human Contexts Behind the Labels
By Bernard Guerin
Copyright 2017
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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The world of mental illness is typically framed around symptoms and cures, where every client is given a label. In this challenging new book, Professor Bernard Guerin provides a fresh alternative to considering these issues, based in interdisciplinary social sciences and discourse analysis rather than medical studies or cognitive metaphors.
A timely and articulate challenge to mainstream... Read more
1. Which behaviours are judged as ‘mental illness’ and why are they called ‘mental’? 2. Contextual analysis for mental health 3. Contextualizing language and thinking (cognition) for mental health 4. Deconstrucing the DSM. 5. Mental health in modernity 6. Belief and rationality, some thought disorders, and self-identity 7. Contexts for societal oppression: being female, poor, or with a refugee background 8. Contexts of devastation: Indigenous mental health and colonization
Biography
Bernard Guerin is Professor of Psychology at the University of South Australia.
