De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
1 Carving Nature at its Joints? DSM and the Medicalization of Everyday Life......Page 16
2 Dualisms and the Myth of Mental Illness......Page 25
3 Making the World Go Away, and How Psychology and Psychiatry Benefit......Page 42
4 Cultural Diversity and Racism: An Historical Perspective......Page 59
5 The Social Context of Paranoia......Page 68
6 From Bad Character to BPD: The Medicalization of \'Personality Disorder\'......Page 81
7 Medicalizing Masculinity......Page 101
8 Can Traumatic Events Traumatize People? Trauma, Madness and \'Psychosis\'......Page 114
9 Children Who Witness Violence at Home......Page 125
10 Discourses of Acceptance and Resistance: Speaking Out about Psychiatry......Page 138
11 The Personal is The Political......Page 156
12 \'I\'m Just, You Know, Joe Bloggs\': The Management of Parental Responsibility for First-episode Psychosis......Page 173
13 The Myth of the Antidepressant: An Historical Analysis......Page 189
14 Antidepressants and the Placebo Response......Page 204
15 Why Were Doctors So Slow to Recognize Antidepressant Discontinuation Problems?......Page 212
16 Toxic Psychology......Page 226
17 Psychotherapy: Illusion with No Future?......Page 241
18 The Psychologization of Torture......Page 254
19 What Is to Be Done?......Page 271
Notes......Page 274
Bibliography......Page 279
Index......Page 310