Critical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health Titles

Personality as Art: Artistic approaches in psychology

Personality as Art: Artistic approaches in psychology

ISBN 978 1 898059 35 6 (2001)

Not everyone wants to live a rational life, or a life guided by the advice of science. Here Peter Chadwick explores Person as Artist, rather than Person as Scientist. In doing so he establishes an alternative ideology for psychology which looks at Life as Art. He…

Making and Breaking Children’s Lives

Making and Breaking Children's Lives

ISBN 978 1 898059 70 7 (2005)

Making and Breaking Children’s Lives examines how children are hurt in modern society. We hear much about the effects of early abandonment, abuse and lack of attachment, but find that children’s experiences are sanitised through medical diagnoses and frequently the…

Beyond Prozac: Healing mental distress

Beyond Prozac: Healing mental distress

ISBN 978 1 898059 63 9 (2001)

As a practising GP, Dr Terry Lynch was plagued by increasing doubts about his effectiveness in dealing with patients experiencing emotional distress. He no longer trusted the drugs handed out as routine treatment for so-called ‘mental’ illnesses. Changes in his…

Beyond Help: A consumers’ guide to psychology

Beyond Help: A consumers' guide to psychology

ISBN 978 1898059 54 7 (2003)

Why do we think that there are 'psychological' problems, and that therapy or medication offers the answer? This book will tell you how it comes to be that we think we have psychological problems, and why it is that 'needing' therapy is increasingly the answer. And,…