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De-Medicalizing Misery II

Society, Politics and the Mental Health Industry

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Editors:
  1. Ewen Speed

    1. University of Essex, United Kingdom

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  2. Joanna Moncrieff

    1. University College London, United Kingdom

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  3. Mark Rapley

    1. University of East London, United Kingdom

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This book extends the critical scope of the previous volume, De-Medicalizing Misery, into a wider social and political context, developing the critique of the psychiatrization of Western society. It explores the contemporary mental health landscape and poses possible alternative solutions to the continuing issues of emotional distress.

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Is it Justice? Therapeutic History and the Politics of Recognition

    • Frank Furedi
    Pages 1-18

  3. Mentality or Morality? Membership Categorization, Multiple Meanings and Mass Murder

    • Mark Rapley, David McCarthy, Alec McHoul
    Pages 19-39

  4. Uncovering Recovery: The Resistible Rise of Recovery and Resilience

    • David Harper, Ewen Speed
    Pages 40-57

  5. The Failure of Modern Psychiatry and Some Prospects of Scientific Progress Offered by Critical Realism

    • David Pilgrim
    Pages 58-75

  6. The Construction of Psychiatric Diagnoses: The Case of Adult ADHD

    • Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Rapley, Sami Timimi
    Pages 76-88

  7. The Hyperactive State: ADHD in Historical Perspective

    • Matthew Smith
    Pages 89-104

  8. The Medicalization of ‘Ups and Downs’: The Marketing of the New Bipolar Disorder

    • Joanna Moncrieff
    Pages 105-119

  9. ‘It Made Me Realize that’s How I Was’: Identity Management by People with Diagnoses of ‘Learning Disability’ and ‘Mental Illness’

    • Dora Whittuck
    Pages 120-135

  10. ADHD: How a Lie ‘Medicated’ Often Enough Became the Truth

    • Martin Whitely
    Pages 136-153

  11. Transforming Misery into Sickness: The Genealogy of Depression in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

    • Joan Busfield
    Pages 154-173

  12. The Cardinals of Psychiatry

    • David Healy
    Pages 174-189

  13. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: A History of Critiques of Psychiatric Classification Systems

    • Craig Newnes
    Pages 190-209

  14. Time to Abandon the Bio-bio-bio Model of Psychosis: Exploring the Epigenetic and Psychological Mechanisms by which Adverse Life Events Lead to Psychotic Symptoms

    • John Read, Richard P Bentall, Roar Fosse
    Pages 210-225

  15. Trauma, Dissociation, Attachment and Neuroscience: A New Paradigm for Understanding Severe Mental Distress

    • Jacqui Dillon, Lucy Johnstone, Eleanor Longden
    Pages 226-234

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 235-283
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'the quality of the chapters is consistently good, and in many cases outstanding... collections like De-Medicalizing Misery II, with their attention to both critiques and solutions, will continually be needed' Laura K. Kerr, PsycCRITIQUES

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Essex, United Kingdom

    Ewen Speed

  • University College London, United Kingdom

    Joanna Moncrieff

  • University of East London, United Kingdom

    Mark Rapley

About the editors

Richard Bentall, University of Liverpool, UK Joan Busfield, University of Essex, UK Jacqui Dillon, Independent Scholar, UK Roar Fosse, Vestre Viken State Hospital Trust, Norway Frank Furedi, University of Kent, UK David Harper, University of East London, UK David Healy, Bangor University, UK Lucy Johnstone, Psychologist, UK Eleanor Longden, Independent Scholar, UK Alec McHoul, Independent Scholar, Australia David Pilgrim, University of Liverpool, UK Matthew Smith, University of Strathclyde, UK Sami Timimi, Psychiatrist, UK Martin Whitely, Independent Scholar, Australia Dora Whittuck, Psychologist, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: De-Medicalizing Misery II

  • Book Subtitle: Society, Politics and the Mental Health Industry

  • Editors: Ewen Speed, Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Rapley

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304667

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30464-3Published: 12 September 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30465-0Published: 12 September 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30466-7Published: 16 September 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 283

  • Topics: Psychoanalysis, Nursing, Critical Psychology, Medical Sociology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry

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