TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parker,Ian
ED  - Askews & Holts
TI  - Deconstructing psychopathology
SN  - 9780857022783 (e-book)
PY  - 1995///
CY  - London
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Psychology, Pathological
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - thema
KW  - Clinical psychology
KW  - Psychotherapy
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Also available in printed form ISBN 9780803974814; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - This book provides a critical perspective on the institutions, practices and presuppositions that underlie the study of 'psychopathology'. The authors offer an alternative way of looking at 'psychopathology'; `Fast becoming a contemporary classic... this book tries both to be critical and engender critical thinking in a number of ways. It offers an overview of a number of theories that address human distress as well as particular forms of "pathology". This book effectively highlights the way that western society has taken "normal"; and "abnormal" emotional states to be factual entities rather than the constructed understandings of human phenomena that they are.... should be on the reading list of every course/module that attends to human distress' - Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis This practical and accessible critique of the institutions, practices and presuppositions that underlie the study of `psychopathology' will be invaluable for students and practitioners who are working to understand mental health and distress. The authors - who come from backgrounds in clinical psychology, psychiatric social work, psychoanalysis, psychology teaching and action research - challenge the traditions of the field. They analyze the notion of `psychopathology' as a conventional term in psychology and psychiatry through the language and institutions that hold it in place; and explore the implications of deconstructive ideas for the theories and practices that sustain clinical treatments; and offer an alternative way of seeing `psychopathology', with accounts of critical professional work and good practice. Deconstructing Psychopathology is invaluable reading for students, academics and practitioners across a range of disciplines who are working to understand mental health and distress, including clinical and counselling psychology, psychiatry, psychiatric social work, counselling and psychotherapy
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