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Searching for normal : a new approach to understanding mental health, distress, and neurodiversity / Sami Timimi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Timimi, Sami, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental health--Popular works.
- Mental health.
- Neurodiversity--Popular works.
- Neurodiversity.
- Neuroses--Diagnosis--Popular works.
- Neuroses.
- Neuroses--Treatment--Popular works.
- Mental Health.
- Neurotic Disorders.
- Popular Work.
- mental health.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mental Health.
- Neurotic Disorders.
- Popular Work.
- Physical Description:
- 343 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Fern Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "More and more people are being diagnosed with ADHD and autism. More and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders. Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world. Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment. So how can we know when distress is normal and when it is something that needs to be treated? In Searching for Normal, Dr Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents, instead, a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole - their family context, their culture, their personal resilience - and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress."--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Preface: encounters with the mental health epidemic
- Changing times
- What is mental health?
- Psychiatric diagnoses are facts of culture not nature
- Concept expansion
- The creation of ADHD
- Is ADHD an evidence-based construct?
- The creation of autism
- Is autism an evidence-based construct?
- Start them young
- Conveyor-belt therapy
- The mental health industrial complex (MHIC)
- Neurodiversity, gender and new human typologies
- Living in a compare-and-compete culture
- Colonial psychiatry
- Rehabilitating emotins
- Epilogue: the changing narrative.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1911717138
- 9781911717133
- 9781911717126
- 191171712X
- OCLC:
- 1513548712
- Publisher Number:
- 90103984664
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