In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology
interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child …

Objective: To examine the evidence for and against the classification of attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a valid disease entity, as defined by the Diagnostic and …

How does developmental psychology connect with (what used to be called) the developing
world? What do cultural representations indicate about the contemporary politics of …

Mental health services are not always good for you. There are some troubling facts to
confront such as the increase in the use of diagnostic based approaches and psychotropic …

Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives explores how attachment-based ideas can be
used in clinical practice by offering a practical and sophisticated exposition of clinical …

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to
the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the …

As the failings of neo-liberalism have recently been revealed through the collapse of much
of the banking and financial services sector, it seems an opportune time to think about the …

In this article, we examine the different ways in which Thomas Szasz and Michel Foucault
have challenged dominant perspectives within psychiatry. We identify, analyze, and …

Aims: Waves of immigration from the latter half of the 20th century have changed the cultural
and ethnic mix of major regions of the world. Dynamic multicultural societies now are a …

This book explores social constructionism and the language of mental distress. Mental
health research has traditionally been dominated by genetic and biomedical explanations …