The Future of Mental Health

Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm

Eric Maisel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-6261-5 (ISBN)

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The Future of Mental Health drills to the heart of the current mental health crisis, where hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide receive unwarranted "mental disorder diagnoses." It paints a picture of how mental health providers can improve their practices to better serve individuals in distress and outlines necessary steps for a mental health revolution. Eric Maisel's goal is to inject more human interaction into the therapeutic process.

Maisel powerfully deconstructs the "mental disorder" paradigm that is the foundation of current mental health practices. The author presents a revolutionary alternative, a "human experience" paradigm. He sheds a bright light on the differences between so-called "psychiatric medication" and mere chemicals with powerful effects, explains why the DSM-5 is silent on causes, silent on treatment, and wedded to illegitimate "symptom pictures." Maisel describes powerful helping alternatives like communities of care, and explains why one day "human experience specialists" may replace current mental health professionals.

An important book for both service providers and service users, The Future of Mental Health brilliantly unmasks current mental health practices and goes an important step further: it describes what we are obliged to do in order to secure better mental health services—and better mental health—for everyone.

Eric Maisel, an American psychotherapist, writes the Rethinking Psychology column for Psychology Today and leads workshops nationally and internationally. He is the author of more than forty books.

1: Our Human Experience; 2: The Naturalness of Distress; 3: Jettisoning Normal; 4: Rethinking Diagnosis; 5: What Shall We Call You?; 6: The Mental Disorder Labeling Fraud; 7: Chemicals versus Medication; 8: On Meds; 9: On Cause and Effect; 10: Life Purpose, Meaning, and Value; 11: Setting the Bar; 12: The Human Experience Specialist; 13: Twelve Shifts for Professionals; 14: Institutions and Communities of Care; 15: The “Mental Disorders” of Childhood; 16: Understanding “Madness”; 17: Alternatives to Diagnosis; 18: The Brooklyn Project; 19: Twenty Keys to a Mental Health Revolution; 20: The Future of Your Mental Health

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.12.2015
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-4128-6261-2 / 1412862612
ISBN-13	978-1-4128-6261-5 / 9781412862615
Zustand	Neuware