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What is mental illness?

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Summary

Discusses the classification process for mental illness, examing the difficulty that practioners have of separating normal reactions to everyday stresses from true mental disorders, which involve recurring patterns of symptoms and behaviors.

Contents
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 diso... Read more
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277 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 616.89 MCN in Adult Non-fiction Available

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