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Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health - The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health (Hardcover)
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Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health - The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health (Hardcover)
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How do you define good mental health? This controversial,
counterintuitive, and altogether fascinating book argues that
"psychological normality" is neither a desirable nor an acceptable
standard. Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look
Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health is a
groundbreaking work, the first book-length study to question the
equation of psychological normality and mental health. Its author,
Dr. Steven James Bartlett, musters compelling evidence and careful
analysis to challenge the paradigm accepted by mental health
theorists and practitioners, a paradigm that is not only wrong, but
can be damaging to those to whom it is applied-and to society as a
whole. In this bold, multidisciplinary work, Bartlett critiques the
presumed standard of normality that permeates contemporary
consciousness. Showing that the current concept of mental illness
is fundamentally unacceptable because it is scientifically
unfounded and the result of flawed thinking, he argues that
adherence to the gold standard of psychological normality leads to
nothing less than cultural impoverishment. Multiple descriptive
examples of ways in which the equation of psychological normality
with good mental health leads us astray An account of the principal
contributors who have urged that psychological normality is not a
desirable or justifiable standard of good mental health A
historical account of the main psychological factors that have led
to our current failing model and practice of higher education
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