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Searching for normal : a new approach to understanding mental health, distress, and neurodiversity / Sami Timimi.
"More and more people are being diagnosed with ADHD and autism. More and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders. Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world. Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment. So how can we know when distress is normal and when it is something that needs to be treated? In Searching for Normal, Dr Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents, instead, a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole-their family context, their culture, their personal resilience -- and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771013102 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 343 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Signal/McClelland & Stewart, 2025.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Changing times -- What is mental health? -- Psychiatric diagnoses are facts of culture not nature -- Concept expansion -- The creation of ADHD -- Is ADHD an evidence-based construct? -- The creation of autism -- Is autism an evidence-based construct? -- Start them young -- Conveyor-belt therapy -- The mental health industrial complex (MHIC) -- Neurodiversity, gender and new human typologies -- Living in a compare-and-compete culture -- Colonial psychiatry -- Rehabilitating emotions. |
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| Subject: | Distress in adolescents. Distress (Psychology) Mental health. Neurodiversity. Neuroses > Diagnosis. Neuroses > Treatment. |
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Summary:
"More and more people are being diagnosed with ADHD and autism. More and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders. Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world. Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment. So how can we know when distress is normal and when it is something that needs to be treated? In Searching for Normal, Dr Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents, instead, a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole-their family context, their culture, their personal resilience -- and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress"--
