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This teaching handbook has been edited by Victoria Tischler. The publishers say: “This comprehensive book explores how visual art, cinema, music, poetry, literature and drama can inform the teaching and practice of psychiatrists and mental health professionals. Edited and written by…
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Sam Woolfe (freelance writer and blogger) has written : “Phenomenology is a philosophical movement, founded by Edmund Husserl (1859 – 1938), which concerns itself with direct experiences. Phenomenologists study the nature of consciousness as it is experienced subjectively in the first person….
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This book has been written (October 2018) by Nikolas Rose. The publishers say: “Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an…
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Written by Robert Whitaker, the first edition of this book appeared in 2010. The publishers say: “In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally…
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In De-Medicalising Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition , Chapter 3 – Making the World Go Away, and How psychology and Psychiatry Benefit – is written by Mary Boyle. It begins: “This chapter is based on two propositions. The first is that if we are ever to…
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On the Recovery in the Bin website, a blogger writes : “I have never been in a place more indifferent to suffering than a psychiatric ward. People walking around in great distress must be so much part of the furniture that mental health…
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Co-edited by Peter Stastny and Peter Lehmann, the publisher says: ” The great book of alternatives to psychiatry around the world. The book highlights alternatives beyond psychiatry, current possibilities for self-help for individuals experiencing madness or depression, and strategies toward implementing…
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