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How to Rethink Mental Illness The Human Contexts Behind the Labels 1st Edition by Bernard Guerin ISBN 1138207292 9781138207295

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Author(s): Bernard Guerin
ISBN(s): 9781138207295, 1138207292
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 10.35 MB
Year: 2017
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1138207292 
ISBN 13: 9781138207295
Author: Bernard Guerin

The world of mental illness is typically framed around symptoms and cures, where every client is given a label. In this challenging new book, Professor Bernard Guerin provides a fresh alternative to considering these issues, based in interdisciplinary social sciences and discourse analysis rather than medical studies or cognitive metaphors. A timely and articulate challenge to mainstream approaches, Guerin asks the reader to observe the ecological contexts for behavior rather than diagnose symptoms, to find new ways to understand and help those experiencing mental distress. This book shows the reader: how we attribute ‘mental illness’ to someone’s behavior why we call some forms of suffering ‘mental’ but not others what Western diagnoses look like when you strip away the theory and categories why psychiatry and psychology appeared for the first time at the start of modernity the relationship between capitalism and modern ideas of ‘mental illness’ why it seems that women, the poor and people of Indigenous and non-Western backgrounds have worse ‘mental health’ how we can rethink the ‘hearing of voices’ more ecologically how self-identity has evolved historically how thinking arises from our social contexts rather than from inside our heads. Offering solutions rather than theory to develop a new ‘post-internal’ psychology, How to Rethink Mental Illness will be essential reading for every mental health professional, as well as anyone who has either experienced a mental illness themselves, or helped a friend or family member who has.

How to Rethink Mental Illness The Human Contexts Behind the Labels 1st Table of contents:

1 WHICH BEHAVIOURS ARE JUDGED AS ‘MENTAL ILLNESS’ AND WHY ARE THEY CALLED ‘MENTAL’?

  • how do people attribute ‘mental health’ issues to behaviour?

  • problems with identifying mental health and an alternative way of thinking

  • non-western ways of identifying mental health

  • problems with current ways of identifying mental health

  • cognitive psychology and clinical psychology

  • other western versions of ‘mental illness’

  • summary

  • references

2 CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS FOR MENTAL HEALTH

  • the basics of contextual analysis

  • five contexts for people’s behaviour

  • summary

  • references

3 CONTEXTUALIZING LANGUAGE AND THINKING (COGNITION) FOR MENTAL HEALTH

  • rethinking talking and thinking

  • rethinking general cognitive processes

  • summary

  • references

4 DECONSTRUCTING THE DSM

  • strategies of life

  • strategies of identifying mental health issues

  • mental health conflicts: locked in, blocked out, and knocked around

  • broad description of behaviours used to strategize in main dsm disorders

  • six common contexts for ‘mental health’ problems which can be rethought as normal life strategies

  • the behaviours found in any of the dsm disorders

  • contextualizing the behaviours found across all of the ‘disorders’

  • post-dsm: reinventing old models of ‘mental health’ behaviours

  • summary

  • references

5 MENTAL HEALTH IN MODERNITY

  • from ‘then’ to modernity: the changes in contexts

  • mental health in modernity: strangers and the generalized other

  • summarizing mental health issues in modernity

  • summary

  • references

6 BELIEF AND RATIONALITY, SOME THOUGHT DISORDERS, AND SELF-IDENTITY

  • beliefs, rationality, and delusions

  • thought disorders and the social contexts of welcome and unwelcome experiences

  • issues of ‘self’ and identity

  • summary

  • references

7 CONTEXTS FOR SOCIETAL OPPRESSION: BEING FEMALE, POOR, OR WITH A REFUGEE BACKGROUND

  • what the next two chapters are about

  • what the next two chapters are not about

  • what we will find

  • societal oppression

  • the life contexts of being a woman

  • the life contexts of being poor

  • the life contexts of those with a refugee background

  • summary

  • references

8 CONTEXTS OF DEVASTATION: INDIGENOUS MENTAL HEALTH AND COLONIZATION

  • the australian literature on indigenous mental health as an example

  • what else we know from other literatures

  • the hidden contexts for indigenous mental health

  • some australian contextual examples

  • nukunu and the context of ‘being on country’ for indigenous mental health

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