De-Medicalizing Misery

1. Carving Nature at its Joints? DSM and the Medicalization of Everyday Life
Mark Rapley, Joanna Moncrieff, Jacqui Dillon

2. Dualisms and the Myth of Mental Illness
Philip Thomas, Patrick Bracken

3. Making the World Go Away, and How Psychology and Psychiatry Benefit
Mary Boyle

4. Cultural Diversity and Racism: An Historical Perspective
Suman Fernando

5. The Social Context of Paranoia
David J. Harper

6. From Bad Character to BPD: The Medicalization of ‘Personality Disorder’
James Bourne

7. Medicalizing Masculinity
Sami Timimi

8. Can Traumatic Events Traumatize People? Trauma, Madness and ‘Psychosis’
Lucy Johnstone

9. Children Who Witness Violence at Home
Arlene Vetere

10. Discourses of Acceptance and Resistance: Speaking Out about Psychiatry
Ewen Speed

11. The Personal is The Political
Jacqui Dillon

12. ‘I’m Just, You Know, Joe Bloggs’: The Management of Parental Responsibility for First-episode Psychosis
Carlton Coulter, Mark Rapley

13. The Myth of the Antidepressant: An Historical Analysis
Joanna Moncrieff

14. Antidepressants and the Placebo Response
Irving Kirsch

15. Why Were Doctors So Slow to Recognize Antidepressant Discontinuation Problems?
Duncan Double

16. Toxic Psychology
Craig Newnes

17. Psychotherapy: Illusion with No Future?
David Smail

18. The Psychologization of Torture
Nimisha Patel

19. What Is to Be Done?
Joanna Moncrieff, Jacqui Dillon, Mark Rapley

Keywords: Psychology, Critical Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Medical Sociology, Nursing, Social Work