Service user involvement in the UK healthcare agenda is now widely expected. Historically,
service user groups have been increasingly successful in their demands for greater …

In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote:"" An important new movement is sweeping
through the western world.... The'mad,'the oppressed, the ex-inmates of society's asylums …

Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a qualitative research approach committed
to the examination of how people make sense of their major life experiences. It originated …

Remediating deficits and managing disabilities has been a central preoccupation for clinical
psychologists. Positive Psychology, in contrast, is concerned with the enhancement of …

The third edition of the hugely successful Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical
Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a reliable and accessible …

Is depression simply the result of chemical imbalances, or Schizophrenia a wholly biological
disorder? What role do the broader circumstances of an individual's social, cultural and …

Bruce A. Arrigo is Professor of Crime, Law, and Society in the Department of Criminal
Justice, University of North Carolina–Charlotte. He holds additional faculty appointments in …

First published in 2002. Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion?, first published in 1990, made
a very significant contribution to the debates on the concepts of schizophrenia and mental …

This co-authored book is not designed to operate as a textbook, but as a polemical and
accessible'counter-text'for students and practitioners. It develops a deconstructive approach …

This book explores the moral, social, and political implications of dominant psychological
theories and practices. The analysis entails the therapeutic uses of psychoanalysis …