Default Depression : How We Now Interpret Human Distress As Mental Illness / Anthony Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Anthony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental health services--Moral and ethical aspects.

Mental health services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2024.

Summary:

Anthony Smith examines the medicalisation of common human experience. Regardless of the context, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illness. Default Depression builds a case for a shift in how we support people in psychological distress - away from the tendency to medicalise, towards a more nuanced approach.

Contents:

Cover

About the author

Title page

Imprint

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 - The limits of the current approach to suicide prevention

Chapter 2 - Distress as clinical disorder: a history and critique of the clinical approach to depression and anxiety

Chapter 3 - The role of the mental health sector

Chapter 4 - Mental health in the workplace: Default Depression in organisational policy and practice

Chapter 5 - Under pressure: the role of general medical practice

Chapter 6 - Medicating human distress: effectiveness and harms from antidepressants

Chapter 7 - The role of the pharmaceutical industry

Chapter 8 - The language of mental health and the illness paradigm

Chapter 9 - Proposing new language

Chapter 10 - What we need for more effective suicide prevention in Australia

Appendices

Appendix A - Intentional self-harm top 10 multiple causes, proportion of total suicides, by age group, 2017

Appendix B - National Coronial Information System

Appendix C - Proportion of workers' compensation claims involving a 'mental condition', 2015

Appendix D - Appropriate language for suicide prevention and the mental health sector

Acknowledgements

Notes

Chapter 8 - The language of mental health and the illness paradigm.

Chapter 9 - Proposing new language

Index

A-C

C-E

E-L

L-P

P-S

S-Y

Wakefield Press

Back cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781923042414

1923042416

OCLC:

1492996963