Introduction 1. Why therapy is worth it, and how it will help you 2. Who’s who 3. What’s what 4. Your preferences and what will work for you 5. What makes good therapy? 6. What does bad therapy look like? 7. Can technology improve therapy? 8. Medication and psychedelics 9.…
Introducing the Straight Talking Introductions series – Richard Bentall and Pete Sanders 1. Our beliefs and values 2. A brief history of beliefs about the causes of human distress 3. The 20th century and beyond: the illness model 4. Do diagnoses help us understand causes? 5. Public opinion: depression is…
Series introduction 1. The work of culture 2. Childhood in today's world 3. Common diagnoses 4. Common treatments used with children and adolescents 5. Getting help References Indexes
Foreword to the first edition – Jan Wallcraft Introduction to the second edition Introduction to the first edition Setting the scene 9 The psychiatric system 15 The language of ‘mental health’ 26 The mental health service user/survivor movement Mental health services and inequality 43 Issues of identity 51 From a…
Series introduction – Richard Bentall and Pete Sanders 1. What this book aims to do 2. The problems with diagnosis and why we need a different approach 3. Introducing the Power Threat Meaning Framework 4. ‘What has happened to you?’ (How is power operating in your life?) 5. ‘How did…
Introduction 1. The place of drug treatment in psychiatry 2. How do psychiatric drugs work? 3. The importance of research 4. Antipsychotic drugs 5. Antidepressants 6. Lithium and other drugs used for bipolar disorder 7. Stimulants 8. Benzodiazepines 9. Withdrawing from psychiatric drugs 10. When might psychiatric drugs be useful?…
Contents Series introduction Richard Bentall and Pete Sanders 1. What this book aims to do 2. Psychiatric diagnosis: The current context 3. What are the problems with psychiatric diagnosis? 4. For and against psychiatric diagnosis in more detail 5. The wider impact of psychiatric diagnosis 6. The personal impact of…
Foreword Introduction - Jo Watson Decolonising distress Sanah Ahsan Fuck the DSM Jyl Anais Burgundy Jasmine Gardosi I work within the crisis team Amanda Bueno de Mesquita Nocebo effect Dr Julie Carter Tilt Ruth E. Dixon More and less all of this Lydia Daisy Self-discovery Mica Gray Drop the disorder!…