De-Medicalizing Misery II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Is it Justice? Therapeutic History and the Politics of Recognition

   • Frank Furedi

   Pages 1-18

3. Mentality or Morality? Membership Categorization, Multiple Meanings and Mass Murder

   • Mark Rapley, David McCarthy, Alec McHoul

   Pages 19-39

4. Uncovering Recovery: The Resistible Rise of Recovery and Resilience

   • David Harper, Ewen Speed

   Pages 40-57

5. The Failure of Modern Psychiatry and Some Prospects of Scientific Progress Offered by Critical Realism

   • David Pilgrim

   Pages 58-75

6. The Construction of Psychiatric Diagnoses: The Case of Adult ADHD

   • Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Rapley, Sami Timimi

   Pages 76-88

7. The Hyperactive State: ADHD in Historical Perspective

   • Matthew Smith

   Pages 89-104

8. The Medicalization of ‘Ups and Downs’: The Marketing of the New Bipolar Disorder

   • Joanna Moncrieff

   Pages 105-119

9. ‘It Made Me Realize that’s How I Was’: Identity Management by People with Diagnoses of ‘Learning Disability’ and ‘Mental Illness’

   • Dora Whittuck

   Pages 120-135

10. ADHD: How a Lie ‘Medicated’ Often Enough Became the Truth

    • Martin Whitely

    Pages 136-153

11. Transforming Misery into Sickness: The Genealogy of Depression in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

    • Joan Busfield

    Pages 154-173

12. The Cardinals of Psychiatry

    • David Healy

    Pages 174-189

13. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: A History of Critiques of Psychiatric Classification Systems

    • Craig Newnes

    Pages 190-209

14. Time to Abandon the Bio-bio-bio Model of Psychosis: Exploring the Epigenetic and Psychological Mechanisms by which Adverse Life Events Lead to Psychotic Symptoms

    • John Read, Richard P Bentall, Roar Fosse

    Pages 210-225

15. Trauma, Dissociation, Attachment and Neuroscience: A New Paradigm for Understanding Severe Mental Distress

    • Jacqui Dillon, Lucy Johnstone, Eleanor Longden

    Pages 226-234

16. Back Matter

    Pages 235-283

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This book extends the critical scope of the previous volume, De-Medicalizing Misery, into a wider social and political context, developing the critique of the psychiatrization of Western society. It explores the contemporary mental health landscape and poses possible alternative solutions to the continuing issues of emotional distress.

• Psychiatry
• mental health
• clinical psychology
• DSM 5
• ADHD
• Bipolar
• depression
• mental health disorders
• mental illness
• diagnosis
• social critique
• psychiatric drugs
• social psychology
• attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Bipolar Disorder
• cognition
• identity
• management
• morality
• neuroscience
• psychiatry
• psychosis
• resilience
• stress
• Therapeut
• trauma

'the quality of the chapters is consistently good, and in many cases outstanding... collections like De-Medicalizing Misery II, with their attention to both critiques and solutions, will continually be needed' Laura K. Kerr, PsycCRITIQUES

• University of Essex, United Kingdom

  Ewen Speed

• University College London, United Kingdom

  Joanna Moncrieff

• University of East London, United Kingdom

  Mark Rapley

Richard Bentall, University of Liverpool, UK Joan Busfield, University of Essex, UK Jacqui Dillon, Independent Scholar, UK Roar Fosse, Vestre Viken State Hospital Trust, Norway Frank Furedi, University of Kent, UK David Harper, University of East London, UK David Healy, Bangor University, UK Lucy Johnstone, Psychologist, UK Eleanor Longden, Independent Scholar, UK Alec McHoul, Independent Scholar, Australia David Pilgrim, University of Liverpool, UK Matthew Smith, University of Strathclyde, UK Sami Timimi, Psychiatrist, UK Martin Whitely, Independent Scholar, Australia Dora Whittuck, Psychologist, UK

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