Psychopathology at School provides a timely response to concerns
about the rising numbers of children whose behaviour is recognised
and understood as a medicalised condition, rather than simply as
poor behaviour caused by other factors. It is the first scholarly
analysis of psychopathology which draws on the philosophers
Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari and Arendt to examine the processes
whereby children's behaviour is pathologised. The heightened
attention to mental disorders is contrasted with education
practices in the early and mid-to-late twentieth century, and the
emergence of a new conceptualization of childhood is explored.
Taking education as a central component to the contemporary
experience of growing up, the book charts the ways in which mental
disorders have become commonplace in childhood and youth, from
birth through to college and university, but also offers examples
of where professionals have refused to pathologise children's
behaviour. The book examines the extent of the influence of
psychopathology on the lives of children and young people, as well
as the practices that infiltrate education and the possibilities
for alternative educational responses that negate the diagnosis of
mental disorder. Psychopathology at School is a must read for
anyone concerned about the growing influence of psychopathology in
education and will be of particular interest to educated readers
and to scholars, students and professionals in education,
psychiatry, psychology, child studies, youth studies, nursing,
social work and sociology.
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