book – A New Vision for Mental Health

Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies

Author: Editorial 6th March 2023 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Richard Saville-Smith. The publishers say: “This book engages the problem of how, in the 21st century, we are to speak about experiences of the extraordinary/anomalous/extreme which occur on a transhistorical and transcultural basis. Critical…
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collaborative practice

anthropology, book, books, dissociation, DSM, madness, psychiatry, psychosis, religious studies, Richard Saville-Smith, schizophrenia

Too Many Pills

Author: Editorial 7th February 2020 0 Comments

The full title of this book (published 2018) is Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About. Written by Dr. James Le Fanu, a General Practitioner in South London, it focuses on…
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a wellbeing society

book, Clients & Patients, James Le Fanu, medicalisation, pharmaceutical industry, prescription drugs, wellbeing

The Culture of Our Discontent: Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 15th August 2017 1 Comment

This book has been written by Prof. Meredith Small. The publishers say: “By many estimations, the Western medical model of mental health is dangerously incomplete. If we step outside of the traditional disease model there are many new and different…
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a wellbeing society

anthropology, book, cross-cultural influences, Culture & Society, evolutionary biology, Meredith Small, nutrition, social influences