What is mental illness?

What is mental illness? / Richard J. McNally.

Discusses the classification process for mental illness, examining the difficulty that practitioners have of separating normal reactions to everyday stresses from true mental disorders, which involve recurring patterns of symptoms and behaviors.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McNally, Richard J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Mental illness.
Mental illness > United States.
Mental health services.
Mentally ill women.
mental disorders.
mentally ill.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Health and Fitness.
Mental health services
Mental illness
maladie mentale.
maladie mentale > Etats-Unis.
Psykiska sjukdomar.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • An epidemic of madness?
  • Are we pathologizing everyday life?
  • Can evolutionary psychology make sense of mental disorder?
  • Psychopathology as adaptation?
  • Does society create (some) mental disorders?
  • Is it in our genes?
  • Do mental disorders differ by kind or degree?
  • So what is mental illness anyway?

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