Mental Health and Well-Being: Alternatives to the Medical Model

ISBN-13: 9780815394396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 226 str.

Neil Thompson

Opis

Mental Health and Well-Being provides a sound foundation for understanding alternatives to the medical model of mental health.

Spis treści

Preface. Acknowledgments. About the Author. Introduction I. Constructing Mental Illness 1. From Demons to Drugs 2. Freud and His Followers 3. Asylums and Axe Murderers 4. Pills and Policing II. Deconstructing Mental Illness 5. The Interactionist Critique 6. The Anti-Psychiatry Critique 7. The Post-Structuralist Critique 8. The Flawed Science Critique III. Theorizing Mental Health and Well-being 9. Madness and Meaning 10. Selfhood and Society 11. Roles and Responsibility 12. Society and Spirituality IV. Promoting Mental Health and Well-being 13. Individual Responses 14. Group Responses 15. Community-based Responses 16. Societal Responses. Conclusion. Epilogue. Glossary. Guide to Further Learning. References. Index

O autorze

Neil Thompson PhD, DLitt, is an independent writer, educator and adviser with extensive experience in the human services. Formerly a university professor, he now helps individuals and organizations to maximize learning.