Deconstructing Psychopathology - Hardcover

Parker, Ian; Georgaca, Eugenie; Harper, David; McLaughlin, Terence; Stowell-Smith, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803974809 ISBN 13: 9780803974807

Verlag: Sage Publications UK, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

`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

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Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is managing editor of 'Annual Review of Critical Psychology'.' He is a member of Psychology Politics Resistance, which is now part of the Asylum collective. He has produced seventeen books, including The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology, and how to end it (1989), Qualitative Psychology: Introducing Radical Research (2005) and Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction (Pluto Press, 2004).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sage Publications UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803974809
• ISBN 13: 9780803974807
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 167
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