Mental Health and Well-Being : Alternatives to the Medical Model

Mental Health and Well-Being provides a sound foundation for understanding alternatives to the medical model of mental health. Students and professionals alike will find an easy to understand overview of critiques of the dominant medical model of mental health and well-being, both longstanding and more recent, and will come away from the book with a more theoretically sound, holistic conception of mental health and well-being. Written by an experienced mental health expert and replete with practical anecdotes, exercises, and examples to help readers apply the book’s material, this book offers an essential foundation for developing more humane mental health practices. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction PART I: Constructing Mental Illness Introduction 1 From Demons to Drugs 2 Freud and His Followers 3 Asylums and Axe Murderers 4 Pills and Policing PART II: Deconstructing Mental Illness Introduction 5 The Interactionist Critique 6 The Anti-Psychiatry Critique 7 The Post-Structuralist Critique 8 The Flawed Science Critique PART III: Theorizing Mental Health and Well-being Introduction 9 Madness and Meaning 10 Selfhood and Society 11 Roles and Responsibility 12 Society and Spirituality PART IV: Promoting Mental Health and Well-being Introduction 13 Individual Responses 14 Group Responses 15 Community-Based Responses 16 Societal Responses Conclusion Epilogue Glossary Guide to Further Learning References Index