Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health

"Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health" is a groundbreaking work, the first book-length study to question the equation of psychological normality and mental health. Its author, Dr. Steven James Bartlett, musters compelling evidence and careful analysis to challenge the paradigm accepted by mental health theorists and practitioners, a paradigm that is not only wrong, but can be damaging to those to whom it is applied - and to society as a whole. In this bold, multidisciplinary work, Bartlett critiques the presumed standard of normality that permeates contemporary consciousness. Showing that the current concept of mental illness is fundamentally unacceptable because it is scientifically unfounded and the result of flawed thinking, he argues that adherence to the gold standard of psychological normality leads to nothing less than cultural impoverishment.

ISBN 031339931X   Pages 296 ISBN13 9780313399312 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 658 Publisher ABC-CLIO   Published in Westport Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc   Height (mm) 235 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 156 Publication date 12 Sep 2011   Spine width (mm) 33 DEWEY 362.2   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

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