Deconstructing Psychopathology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780803974807)

Fast becoming a contemporary classic... this book tries both to be critical and engender critical thinking in a number of ways. It offers an overview of a number of theories that address human distress as well as particular forms of "pathology". This book effectively highlights the way that western society has taken "normal"; and "abnormal" emotional states to be factual entities rather than the constructed understandings of human phenomena that they are.... should be on the reading list of every course//module that attends to human distress′ - Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis

This practical and accessible critique of the institutions, practices and presuppositions that underlie the st

Author: Ian Patrick, Eugenie Georgaca, David Harper
ISBN-10: 0803974809
ISBN-13: 9780803974807
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 01/18/1996
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.14w x 0.74d