{"product_id":"deconstructing-psychopathology","title":"Deconstructing Psychopathology","description":"`Fast becoming a contemporary classic... this book tries both to be critical and engender critical thinking in a number of ways. It offers an overview of a number of theories that address human distress as well as particular forms of \"pathology\". This book effectively highlights the way that western society has taken \"normal\"; and \"abnormal\" emotional states to be factual entities rather than the constructed understandings of human phenomena that they are.... should be on the reading list of every course\/module that attends to human distress' - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Society for Existential Analysis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis practical and accessible critique of the institutions, practices and presuppositions that underlie the study of `psychopathology' will be invaluable for students and practitioners who are working to understand mental health and distress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors - who come from backgrounds in clinical psychology, psychiatric social work, psychoanalysis, psychology teaching and action research - challenge the traditions of the field. They analyze the notion of `psychopathology' as a conventional term in psychology and psychiatry through the language and institutions that hold it in place; and explore the implications of deconstructive ideas for the theories and practices that sustain clinical treatments; and offer an alternative way of seeing `psychopathology', with accounts of critical professional work and good practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeconstructing Psychopathology\u003c\/b\u003e is invaluable reading for students, academics and practitioners across a range of disciplines who are working to understand mental health and distress, including\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclinical and counselling psychology, psychiatry, psychiatric social work, counselling and psychotherapy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481652404597,"sku":"9780803974814","price":57.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780803974814.jpg?v=1786089937","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/deconstructing-psychopathology","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}