De-Medicalizing Misery II Society, Politics and the Mental Health Industry

This book expands upon the previous volume of De-Medicalizing Misery. It seeks to extend the critical scope of that original project into a wider social and political context, with a view to developing the critique of the psychiatrization of Western society in particular. It draws from the work of a number of international critical scholars to explore the contemporary mental health landscape and to pose possible alternative solutions to the continuing problem of emotional distress and disturbance.

By turning a critical lens to ongoing processes of recovery, resilience and the expansionist project of psychiatric classification, this book seeks to undermine these processes through the development of realizable alternatives to this psychiatrization of misery and distress.

De-Medicalizing Misery II is dedicated in part to the work and memory of Mark Rapley, who was a central figure in the development of this critical project.

Joanna Moncrieff is a Senior Lecturer at University College London, UK and a practising consultant psychiatrist. She is author of The Myth of the Chemical Cure and The Bitterest Pills, winner of the 2013 PROSE award in Psychology, and co-chairperson of the Critical Psychiatry Network.

Mark Rapley was Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, UK, where he ran the Clinical Psychology Doctorate programme. He is the author of The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability, Quality of Life Research and, with Susan Hansen and Alec McHoul, Beyond Help: A Consumers' Guide to Psychology.
 
Ewen Speed is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology at the School of Health and Human Sciences at the University of Essex, UK. His research interests are in critical social policy, and interpretive policy analysis. He is co-editor of the Cost of Living (www.cost-ofliving.net), a blog about the politics, economics and sociology of health and healthcare.

Preface: Misery, Meaning and Politics
1. Is it Justice? Therapeutic History and the Politics of Recognition; Frank Furedi
2. Mentality of Morality? Membership Categorization, Multiple Meanings and Mass Murder; Mark Rapley, David McCarthy and Alec McHoul
3. Uncovering Recovery: the Resistible Rise of Recovery and Resilience;David Harper and Ewen Speed
4. The Failure of Modern Psychiatry and Some Prospects of Scientific Progress Offered by Critical Realism; David Pilgrim
5. The Construction of Psychiatric Diagnoses: the Case of Adult ADHD; Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Rapley and Sami Timimi
6. The Hyperactive State: ADHD in Historical Perspective;Matthew Smith
7. The Medicalization of 'Ups and Downs:' The Marketing of the New Bipolar Disorder; Joanna Moncrieff
8.'It Made Me Realise That's How I Was': Identity Management by People with Diagnoses of 'Learning Disability' and 'Mental Illness'; Dora Whittuck
9. ADHD: How a Lie 'Medicated' Often Enough Became the Truth; Martin Whitely
10.Transforming Misery into Sickness: The Genealogy of Depression in the DSM; Joan Busfield
11. The Cardinals of Psychiatry; David Healy
12. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: A History of Critiques of Psychiatric Classification Systems; Craig Newnes
13. Time to Abandon the Bio-Bio-Bio Model of Psychosis: Exploring the Epigenetic and Psychological Mechanisms by which Adverse Life Events Lead to Psychotic Symptoms; John Read, Richard P. Bentall and Roar Fosse
14. Trauma, Dissociation Attachment and Neuroscience: A New Paradigm for Understanding Severe Mental Illness; Jacqui Dillon, Lucy Johnstone and Eleanor Longden