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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Eric MaiselPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9781412862615ISBN 10: 1412862612 Pages: 236 Publication Date: 30 December 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1: Our Human Experience; 2: The Naturalness of Distress; 3: Jettisoning Normal; 4: Rethinking Diagnosis; 5: What Shall We Call You?; 6: The Mental Disorder Labeling Fraud; 7: Chemicals versus Medication; 8: On Meds; 9: On Cause and Effect; 10: Life Purpose, Meaning, and Value; 11: Setting the Bar; 12: The Human Experience Specialist; 13: Twelve Shifts for Professionals; 14: Institutions and Communities of Care; 15: The “Mental Disorders” of Childhood; 16: Understanding “Madness”; 17: Alternatives to Diagnosis; 18: The Brooklyn Project; 19: Twenty Keys to a Mental Health Revolution; 20: The Future of Your Mental HealthReviewsThe Future of Mental Health is a highly readable, compelling and challenging book on a topic that affects all of us. Everyone should read it! A wonderful and much needed book. - Anne Cooke, Clinical Director, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, co-editor Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Understanding Bipolar Disorder Eric Maisel goes a long way toward explaining our current situation and pointing us in new directions in his excellent new book. Highly recommended! --Louis Breger, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Dr. Maisel's bold new book is a refreshing seed in [the] forlorn mental health landscape. Maisel not only paints a picture of what a new mental health countryside could look like, but he also provides useful suggestions of how we might get there and why it might be important that we start heading in that direction today. --Tim Carey, Central Australian Health Service and Australian Psychological Society Dr. Maisel envisions a new paradigm and framework that restores compassion, complexity, and dignity to the care of suffering souls. A ground-breaking book, a clarion call and a bold vision. --Shawn Rubin, Journal of Humanistic Psychology and University Professors Press Eric Maisel's book is extraordinary. Profoundly innovative and revolutionary, it describes the Herculean but not impossible tasks facing the mental health establishment and reshuffles all the cards in psychiatry. --Patrick Landman, Psychiatrist, Child Psychiatrist, Chairman, STOP DSM France Maisel really throws the gauntlet down with this one, and the psychiatric community will find it difficult to ignore his challenge. --Mark D. White, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, blogger at Psychology Today, and author of The Illusion of Well-Being The Future of Mental Health is a highly readable, compelling and challenging book on a topic that affects all of us. Everyone should read it! A wonderful and much needed book. - Anne Cooke, Clinical Director, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, coeditor Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Understanding Bipolar Disorder Author InformationEric Maisel, an American psychotherapist, writes the Rethinking Psychology column for Psychology Today and leads workshops nationally and internationally. He is the author of more than forty books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |