Palgrave Macmillan | A Manifesto For Mental Health: Why We Need A Revolution In Mental Health Care (2019 EN)

Author: Peter Kinderman
Full Title: A Manifesto For Mental Health: Why We Need A Revolution In Mental Health Care
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 edition (October 16, 2019)
Year: 2019
ISBN-13: 3030243869 (978-3-030-24386-9), 9783030243852 (978-3-030-24385-2)
ISBN-10: 3030243869, 3030243850
Pages: 314
Language: English
Genre: Popular Science in Psychology
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 26.74 €


A Manifesto for Mental Health presents a radically new and distinctive outlook that critically examines the dominant ‘disease-model’ of mental health care. Incorporating the latest findings from both biological neuroscience and research into the social determinants of psychological problems, Peter Kinderman offers a contemporary, biopsychosocial, alternative. He warns that the way we care for people with mental health problems is creating a hidden human rights emergency and he proposes a new vision for the future of health organisations across the globe.

The book highlights persuasive evidence that our mental health and wellbeing depend largely on the society in which we live, on the things happen to us, and on how we learn to make sense of and respond to those events. Kinderman proposes a rejection of invalid diagnostic labels, practical help rather than medication, and a recognition that distress is usually an understandable human response to life's challenges. Offering a serious critique of establishment thinking, A Manifesto for Mental Health provides a well-crafted demonstration of how, with scientific rigour and empathy, a revolution in mental health care is not only highly desirable, it is also entirely achievable.


Overview:
✓ Outlines a principled and evidenced proposal for change; a call for new thinking on mental health care and wellbeing
✓ Provides an international perspective on key issues in the field of mental health
✓ Supports a sharp reduction in reliance on medication to address emotional distress, and greater legal protection for our autonomy
✓ Argues that identifying mental health issues as merely the symptom of diagnosable ‘illnesses’ lacks reliability, validity and utility

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