De-Medicalizing Misery Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition

by Moncrieff, Joanna; Rapley, Mark; Dillon, Jacqui

• ISBN13: 9780230307919
• ISBN10: 0230307914
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Mark Rapley is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, UK. He is the author of The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability and Quality ofLife Research and Beyond Help: A Consumers' Guide to Psychology (co-authored). Joanna Moncrieff is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mental Health Sciences at University College London, UK and a Practising Consultant Psychiatrist at the North East London Foundation Trust. She is the author of The Myth of the Chemical Cure. Jacqui Dillon is the National Chair of the Hearing Voices Network, UK, and a Director of Intervoice - the International Network for Training, Education and Research into Hearing Voices.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Preface; R.Dallos
Carving Nature at its Joints? DSM and the Medicalization of Everyday Life; M.Rapley, J.Moncrieff&J.Dillon
Dualisms and the Myth of Mental Illness; P.Thomas&P.Bracken
Making the World Go Away, and How Psychology and Psychiatry Benefit; M.Boyle
Cultural Diversity and Racism: An Historical Perspective; S.Fernando
The Social Context of Paranoia; D.J.Harper
From 'Bad Character' to BPD: The Medicalization of 'Personality Disorder'; J.Bourne
Medicalizing Masculinity; S.Timimi
Can Traumatic Events Traumatise People? Trauma, Madness and 'Psychosis'; L.Johnstone
Children Who Witness Violence at Home; A.Vetere
Discourses of Acceptance and Resistance: Speaking Out About Psychiatry; E.Speed
The Personal Is the Political; J.Dillon
'I'm Just, You Know, Joe Bloggs': The Management of Parental Responsibility for First-Episode Psychosis; C.Coulter&M.Rapley
The Myth of the Antidepressant: An Historical Analysis; J.Moncrieff
Antidepressants and the Placebo Response; I.Kirsch
Why Were Doctors so Slow to Recognise Antidepressant Discontinuation Problems?; D.Double
Toxic Psychology; C.Newnes
Psychotherapy: Illusion With No Future?; D.Smail
The Psychologization of Torture; N.Patel
What Is To Be Done?; J.Moncrieff, J.Dillon&M.Rapley
Figure: Papers Using Term 'Antidepressant' On Medline 1957-1965
Index