How to Rethink Mental Illness - 9781138207295

Taylor & Francis

How to Rethink Mental IllnessThe Human Contexts Behind the Labels\nAuthor(s): Bernard Guerin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138207295, 978-1138207295\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n\nA timely and articulate challenge to mainstream approaches, Guerin asks the reader to observe the ecological contexts for behavior rather than diagnose symptoms, to find new ways to understand and help those experiencing mental distress. This book shows the reader:\n\nhow we attribute mental illness to someones behavior\n\nwhy we call some forms of suffering mental but not others\n\nwhat Western diagnoses look lik.