| Title:
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DECONSTRUCTING PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
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| By: |
Eugenie Georgaca, David Harper, Terence McLaughlin |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£29.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0857022784 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857022783 |
| Publisher: |
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD (DIGITAL) |
| Pub. date: |
21 November, 1995 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
Suitable for students and practitioners who are working to understand mental health and distress, this title offers a critique of the institutions, practices and presuppositions that underlie the study of 'psychopathology'. |
| Synopsis: |
`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 AnalysisThis 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, includingclinical and counselling psychology, psychiatry, psychiatric social work, counselling and psychotherapy. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
SAGE Publications Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |