The first alternative, non-medical textbook of Psychiatry. Essential reading for students and those working in psychiatry, psychology, mental health nursing and social work. Also for service users, survivors and their families and friends. Volume 1 demonstrates the striking absence of bio-chemical or genetic evidence for any aspect of Psychiatry's conventional 'medical model of mental illness'. By employing the concepts of sociology, psychological analysis and the history of ideas, the authors unmask the prevailing false ideas about functional mental disorder and its treatment. They argue that those ideas and the accompanying practices express society's ill-judged, wishful responses to the universal dread of mental chaos. Also available from lulu.com Volume 2, Psychiatry Reconstructed: Misery Ameliorated - Non-Medical Care & Treatment.

The first alternative, non-medical textbook of Psychiatry. Essential reading for students and those working in psychiatry, psychology, mental health nursing and social work. Also for service users, survivors and their families and friends. Volume 1 demonstrates the striking absence of bio-chemical or genetic evidence for any aspect of Psychiatry's conventional 'medical model of mental illness'. By employing the concepts of sociology, psychological analysis and the history of ideas, the authors unmask the prevailing false ideas about functional mental disorder and its treatment. They argue that those ideas and the accompanying practices express society's ill-judged, wishful responses to the universal dread of mental chaos. Also available from lulu.com Volume 2, Psychiatry Reconstructed: Misery Ameliorated - Non-Medical Care & Treatment.

The second, concluding Volume of the first alternative, non-medical textbook of Psychiatry. Essential reading for students and those working in psychiatry, mental health nursing and social work. Also for service users, survivors and their families and friends. Volume 1, 'Psychiatry Deconstructed', demonstrated the striking absence of biochemical or genetic evidence for any aspect of Psychiatry's conventional 'medical model of mental illness'. Now Volume 2 offers a comprehensive social-psychodynamic approach to explaining both the types of functional mental disorder and the bizarre popularity of the current unscientific, unhelpful and often harmful official response. This alternative perspective permits the authors to draw upon sound evidence and arguments to suggest a fully-rounded and essentially non-medical approach to the remedy of psychological distress.