What is mental illness? / Richard J. McNally.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNally, Richard J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness.

Mental illness--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

McNally drives at one point over and over again; survivors of trauma remember their abuse all too well. He argues that there is next to no evidence linking trauma to amnesia, even in cases of sexual abuse. He dismantles all the major studies, one by one, reinterpreting the results, questioning the assumptions, pointing out the lack of verification and dismissing the underpinning of trauma-amnesia theory.

Contents:

An epidemic of madness?

Are we pathologizing everyday life?

Can evolutionary psychology make sense of mental disorder?

Psychopathology as adaptation?

Does society create (some) mental disorders?

Is it in our genes?

Do mental disorders differ by kind or degree?

So what is mental illness anyway?.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674266032

067426603X

9780674059481

0674059484

OCLC:

709591719