Mental Health and Enhancement by Stephan Schleim - 9783031326172

Mental Health and EnhancementSubstance Use and Its Social Implications\nAuthor(s): Stephan Schleim\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031326172, 978-3031326172\nSynopsis\nThis book takes the reader from basic questions like What is health? and What is a psychiatric disorder?, into the midst of peoples present mental health and enhancement choices. More and more people receive psychiatric diagnoses and the use of psychopharmacological drugs keeps increasing. Concurrently, media report the popularity of brain doping or study drugs on campuses as well as at the workplace. This open access book tests the hypothesis of whether mental health and enhancement can be seen as two sides of the same coin: that the demands on cognitive and emotional functioning have been increasing and psychoactive substances are used to meet these demands.\n\nWhether the increasing number of diagnoses means that really more p.