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De-Medicalizing Misery II Also by the Editors Joanna Moncrieff THE MYTH OF THE CHEMICAL CURE: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment A STRAIGHT TALKING INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS DE-MEDICALIZING MISERY (co-editor) THE BITTEREST PILLS: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs Mark Rapley BEYOND HELP: A Consumer’s Guide to Psychology (co-author) FROM ACQUAINTANCE TO FRIENDSHIP: Issues for People with Learning Disabilities (co-author) HOW TO ANALYSE TALK IN INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS: A Casebook of Methods (co-editor) QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH: A Critical Introduction THE SOCIAL CONTRUCTION OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY DE-MEDICALIZING MISERY (co-editor) Praise for De-Medicalizing Misery ‘Despite longstanding awareness of the limitations of the medical model when applied to difficulties of human behavior and adjustment, the fields of psychia- try and psychology continue to accede to the pressures of medicine and the drug industry in their conceptualization of these human realities. Ironically, however, this medical model, eager as it is to fit so much of people’s experience into diagnostic categories, is a social construction. This book represents a significant effort to de-mystify, de-medicalize, and reclaim important aspects of the human condition.’ – Kenneth D. Keith, University of San Diego, USA ‘De-Medicalizing Misery has assembled an impressive cast of leading mental health experts. Together they challenge the simplistic and pessimistic biological model of human distress that has, with eager support from the pharmaceutical industry, dominated the mental health field for far too long. This evidence-based, humane and optimistic book not only explains where biological psychiatry went wrong, it spells out the alternatives.’ – John Read, University of Auckland, New Zealand ‘The psychiatrist or psychologist is expected to do something for every patient sitting in front of him or her, but how robust is the intellectual basis of psychiat- ric science when psychiatric ‘diseases’ are merely symptom clusters – clustered by us, not by nature? We are in indeed in the age of the medicalization of everyday life, when Lord Layard, economist and architect of the IAPT programme, can write in the BMJ that ‘mental illness’ has taken over from unemployment as our greatest social problem. But what is the test of ‘mental illness’? In De-Medicalizing Misery the authors examine some of the domains lamentably absent from orthodox psychiatry and psychology training programmes, with their medical model focus, and in so doing raise the IQ of the whole debate. And not just for clinicians.’ – Derek Summerfield, King’s College, London, UK. ‘...this is a great book and should be on the shelf of AMHPs (Approved Mental Health Practitioners), practitioners, academics, people with their doubts about the psy-professions, those too sure of psy-professions, and perhaps essential reading for people who have survived services, have felt their misery with little relief and have wondered what it is about themselves that remains untreatable.’ – British Journal of Social Work ‘This book could not be more relevant than now...’ – The Psychologist This page intentionally left blank De-Medicalizing Misery II Society, Politics and the Mental Health Industry Edited by Ewen Speed University of Essex, UK Joanna Moncrieff University College London, UK and Mark Rapley University of East London, UK Selection and editorial matter © Ewen Speed, Joanna Moncrieff and Mark Rapley 2014 Chapters © Individual authors 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-30464-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-137-30465-0 ISBN 978-1-137-30466-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137304667 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India. For Mark Rapley This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Tables and Figures xi Preface: Misery, Meaning and Politics xii Acknowledgements xix Notes on Contributors xx 1 Is it Justice? Therapeutic History and the Politics of Recognition 1 Frank Furedi 2 Mentality or Morality? Membership Categorization, Multiple Meanings and Mass Murder 19 Mark Rapley, David McCarthy and Alec McHoul 3 Uncovering Recovery: The Resistible Rise of Recovery and Resilience 40 David Harper and Ewen Speed 4 The Failure of Modern Psychiatry and Some Prospects of Scientific Progress Offered by Critical Realism 58 David Pilgrim 5 The Construction of Psychiatric Diagnoses: The Case of Adult ADHD 76 Joanna Moncrieff, Mark Rapley and Sami Timimi 6 The Hyperactive State: ADHD in Historical Perspective 89 Matthew Smith 7 The Medicalization of ‘Ups and Downs’: The Marketing of the New Bipolar Disorder 105 Joanna Moncrieff 8 ‘It Made Me Realize that’s How I Was’: Identity Management by People with Diagnoses of ‘Learning Disability’ and ‘Mental Illness’ 120 Dora Whittuck 9 ADHD: How a Lie ‘Medicated’ Often Enough Became the Truth 136 Martin Whitely ix
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