Searching for Normal
- ISBN #9781911717133
- Dr Sami Timimi
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Searching for Normal
- ISBN #9781911717133
- Dr Sami Timimi
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- In Store Only
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A psychiatrist looks beneath the surface of mental health and neurodiversity in the wider political and cultural context and explores how we might reconsider the way in which we think about, treat and care for those in distress. More and more people are being diagnosed with ADHD and autism. More and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders. Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world. Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment. So how can we know when distress is normal and when it is something that needs to be treated? In Searching for Normal, Dr Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents, instead, a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole - their family context, their culture, their personal resilience - and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Publication Date: 25/03/2025
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Country of Origin: United Kingdom
- Pages: 352
- Dimensions (mm): 233x152x26mm
- Weight: 430g
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A psychiatrist looks beneath the surface of mental health and neurodiversity in the wider political and cultural context and explores how we might reconsider the way in which we think about, treat and care for those in distress. More and more people are being diagnosed with ADHD and autism. More and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders. Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world. Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment. So how can we know when distress is normal and when it is something that needs to be treated? In Searching for Normal, Dr Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents, instead, a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole - their family context, their culture, their personal resilience - and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Publication Date: 25/03/2025
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Country of Origin: United Kingdom
- Pages: 352
- Dimensions (mm): 233x152x26mm
- Weight: 430g
- Delivery & Returns
