How to Rethink Mental Illness: The Human Contexts Behind the Labels

by Bernard Guerin

Book Overview

The world of mental illness is typically framed around symptoms and cures, where every client is given a label. In this challenging new book, Professor Bernard Guerin provides a fresh alternative to considering these issues, based in interdisciplinary social sciences and discourse analysis rather than medical studies or cognitive metaphors.

A timely and articulate challenge to mainstream approaches, Guerin asks the reader to observe the ecological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138207306
• ISBN13: 9781138207301
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"