De-medicalizing misery : psychiatry, psychology and the human condition / edited by Mark Rapley, Joanna Moncrieff, Jacqui Dillon.

Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

xiv, 305 pages ; 22 cm

Carving nature at its joints? : DSM and the medicalization of everyday life / Mark Ripley, Joanna Moncrieff, and Jacqui Dillon -- Dualisms and the myth of mental illness / Philip Thomas and Patrick Bracken -- Making the world go away, and how psychology and psychiatry benefit / Mary Boyle -- Cultural diversity and racism : an historical perspective / Suman Fernando -- The social context of paranoia / David J. Harper -- From bad character to BPD : the medicalization of 'personality disorder' / James Bourne -- Medicalizing masculinity / Sami Timimi -- Can traumatic events traumatize people? : trauma, madness and 'psychosis' / Lucy Johnstone -- Children who witness violence at home / Arlene Vetere -- Discourses of acceptance and resistance : speaking out about psychiatry / Ewen Speed -- The personal is the political / Jacqui Dillon -- 'I'm just, you know, Joe Bloggs' : the management of parental responsibility for first-episode psychosis / Carlton Coulter and Mark Rapley -- The myth of the antidepressant : an historical analysis / Joanna Moncrieff -- Antidepressants and the placebo response / Irving Kirsch -- Why were doctors so slow to recognize antidepressant discontinuation problems? / Duncan Double -- Toxic psychology / Craig Newnes -- Psychotherapy : illusion with no future? / David Small -- The psychologization of torture / Nimisha Patel -- What is to be done? / Joanna Moncrieff, Jacqui Dillon and Mark Rapley.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-294) and index.