The first edition of The Mind and its Discontents was a powerful analysis of how, as a society, we view mental illness. In the ten years since the first edition, there has been a growing interest in the philosophy of psychiatry, and a new edition of this text is more timely and important than ever.
In The Mind and its Discontents, Grant Gillett argues that an understanding of mental illness requires more than just a study of biological models of...