ABSTRACT

Mental Health and Well-Being provides a sound foundation for understanding alternatives to the medical model of mental health. Students and professionals alike will find an easy to understand overview of critiques of the dominant medical model of mental health and well-being, both longstanding and more recent, and will come away from the book with a more theoretically sound, holistic conception of mental health and well-being. Written by an experienced mental health expert and replete with practical anecdotes, exercises, and examples to help readers apply the book’s material, this book offers an essential foundation for developing more humane mental health practices.

part I|40 pages

Constructing Mental Illness

chapter 1|11 pages

From Demons to Drugs

chapter 2|8 pages

Freud and His Followers

chapter 3|9 pages

Asylums and Axe Murderers

chapter 4|10 pages

Pills and Policing

part II|1 pages

Deconstructing Mental Illness

chapter 5|11 pages

The Interactionist Critique

chapter 6|11 pages

The Anti-Psychiatry Critique

chapter 7|14 pages

The Post-Structuralist Critique

chapter 8|14 pages

The Flawed Science Critique

part III|1 pages

Theorizing Mental Health and Well-being

chapter 9|17 pages

Madness and Meaning

chapter 10|13 pages

Selfhood and Society

chapter 11|12 pages

Roles and Responsibility

chapter 12|15 pages

Society and Spirituality

part IV|33 pages

Promoting Mental Health and Well-being

chapter 13|10 pages

Individual Responses

chapter 14|11 pages

Group Responses

chapter 15|10 pages

Community-Based Responses

chapter 16|11 pages

Societal Responses

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion

chapter |3 pages

Epilogue