Deconstructing Psychopathology

By Ian Parker, Terence McLaughlin, Eugenie Georgaca, et al.

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803974809
• ISBN13: 9780803974807
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Sage Publications UK
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"