Deconstructing Psychopathology

Deconstructing Psychopathology

by Ian PatrickEugenie Georgaca David Harper and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 26/06/2015

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`Fast becoming a contemporary classic... this book tries both to be critical and engender critical thinking in a number of ways. It offers an overview of a number of theories that address human distress as well as particular forms of "pathology". This book effectively highlights the way that western society has taken "normal"; and "abnormal" emotional states to be factual entities rather than the constructed understandings of human phenomena that they are.... should be on the reading list of every course/module that attends to human distress′ - Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis


This practical and accessible critique of the institutions, practices and presuppositions that underlie the study of `psychopathology′ will be invaluable for students and practitioners who are working to understand mental health and distress.


The authors - who come from backgrounds in clinical psychology, psychiatric social work, psychoanalysis, psychology teaching and action research - challenge the traditions of the field. They analyze the notion of `psychopathology′ as a conventional term in psychology and psychiatry through the language and institutions that hold it in place; and explore the implications of deconstructive ideas for the theories and practices that sustain clinical treatments; and offer an alternative way of seeing `psychopathology′, with accounts of critical professional work and good practice.


Deconstructing Psychopathology is invaluable reading for students, academics and practitioners across a range of disciplines who are working to understand mental health and distress, including


clinical and counselling psychology, psychiatry, psychiatric social work, counselling and psychotherapy.

ISBN:
9781446233801
9781446233801
Category:
Clinical psychology
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
26-06-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications

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