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Author(s): John Read (ed.), Jacqui Dillon (ed.)
ISBN(s): 9780415579520, 041557952X
Edition: 2nd
File Details: PDF, 1.57 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 041557952X 
ISBN 13: 9780415579520
Author: John Read, Jacqui Dillon

Are hallucinations and delusions really symptoms of an illness called ‘schizophrenia’? Are mental health problems really caused by chemical imbalances and genetic predispositions? Are psychiatric drugs as effective and safe as the drug companies claim? Is madness preventable? This second edition of Models of Madness challenges those who hold to simplistic, pessimistic and often damaging theories and treatments of madness. In particular it challenges beliefs that madness can be explained without reference to social causes and challenges the excessive preoccupation with chemical imbalances and genetic predispositions as causes of human misery, including the conditions that are given the name ‘schizophrenia’. This edition updates the now extensive body of research showing that hallucinations, delusions etc. are best understood as reactions to adverse life events and that psychological and social approaches to helping are more effective and far safer than psychiatric drugs and electroshock treatment. A new final chapter discusses why such a damaging ideology has come to dominate mental health and, most importantly, how to change that. Models of Madness is divided into three sections: Section One provides a history of madness, including examples of violence against the ‘mentally ill’, before critiquing the theories and treatments of contemporary biological psychiatry and documenting the corrupting influence of drug companies. Section Two summarises the research showing that hallucinations, delusions etc. are primarily caused by adverse life events (eg. parental loss, bullying, abuse and neglect in childhood, poverty, etc) and can be understood using psychological models ranging from cognitive to psychodynamic. Section Three presents the evidence for a range of effective psychological and social approaches to treatment, from cognitive and family therapy to primary prevention. This book brings together thirty-seven contributors from ten countries and a wide range of scientific disciplines. It provides an evidence-based, optimistic antidote to the pessimism of biological psychiatry. Models of Madness will be essential reading for all involved in mental health, including service users, family members, service managers, policy makers, nurses, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counsellors, psychoanalysts, social workers, occupational therapists, art therapists.

Models of Madness Psychological Social and Biological Approaches to Psychosis 2nd Table of contents:

Part I The Illness Model of Psychosis
1 ‘Schizophrenia’ is not an illness
2 A history of madness
3 The invention of ‘schizophrenia’: Kraepelin and Bleuler
4 Genetics, eugenics and the mass murder of ‘schizophrenics’
5 Does ‘schizophrenia’ exist? Reliability and validity
6 Biological psychiatry’s lost cause: The ‘schizophrenic’ brain
7 Schizophrenia’ and heredity: Why the emperor (still) has no genes
8 Electroconvulsive therapy
9 Antipsychotic drugs
10 Drug companies and ‘schizophrenia’: Unbridled capitalism meets madness

Part II Social and psychological approaches to understanding madness
11 Public beliefs about the causes of ‘schizophrenia’: Bad things happen and can drive you crazy
12 Prejudice, stigma and ‘schizophrenia’: The role of bio-genetic ideology
13 Listening to the voices we hear: Clients’ understandings of psychotic experiences
14 Psychosis, poverty and ethnicity
15 Gender and psychosis
16 Understanding psychotic symptoms: Cognitive and integrative models
17 Psychodynamic approaches to understanding psychosis: Defenses against terror
18 Childhood adversity and psychosis: From heresy to certainty
19 Psychosis and families: Intergenerational parenting problems

Part III Social and psychological approaches to responding to madness
20 Prevention of psychosis: Creating societies where more people flourish
21 The work of experience-based experts
22 Cognitive therapy for people experiencing psychosis
23 Psychodynamic psychotherapy for psychosis: Empirical evidence
24 The development of early intervention services
25 Non-hospital, non-medication interventions in first-episode psychosis
26 Family therapy and psychosis: Replacing ideology with openness
27 Creating evidence-based, effective and humane mental health services: Overcoming barriers to a p

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