What is mental illness? / Richard J. McNally.
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.
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- ISBN: 9780674046498
- ISBN: 0674046498
- Physical Description: 277 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-263) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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?. |
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Subject: | Mental illness. Mental illness > United States. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Interurban Library | RC 454 M326 2011 (Text) | 26040002938575 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |