What is mental illness?:
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Main Author: McNally, Richard J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-263) and index
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?
Discusses the classification process for mental illness, examining the difficulty that practioners have of separating normal reactions to everyday stresses from true mental disorders, which involve recurring patterns of symptoms and behaviors
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (277 p.)
ISBN:0674046498
0674059484
9780674046498
9780674059481

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