The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture
normality
AM I NORMAL?
“I’m Normal” and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves
Losing Our Minds: What Mental Illness Really Is – and What It Isn’t
Medicalising everyday life doesn’t help anyone’s mental health
“Not all suffering is mental illness. Pretending it is raises false hopes and puts pressure on an already strained NHS”, writes Adrian Massey in The Guardian . His opinion piece begins: “I have a growing sense of unease about the Americanisation of…
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What is Neurodiversity?
In this new video from the Counselling Channel, Stephen Munt (counselling psychologist) introduces the subject of Neurodiversity. The video also features a person who has faced and overcome challenges with their neurodiversity and differences.
We need to rethink how we classify mental illness
Dr. Tamara Kayali Browne is a Bioethicist and Philosopher, lecturing in Health Ethics and Professionalism at Deakin University, Australia. Writing in The Guardian newspaper, Dr. Browne asks: “How do we decide what emotions, thoughts and behaviours are normal, abnormal or pathological?” She…
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Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
The publishers describe this book (2014) as being an “… urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality. Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. Today, however, millions of people who…
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Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health
“Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health” is the first book-length study to question the equation of psychological normality and mental health. The book’s publishers say that the author, Dr….
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