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Social Construction of Mental Illness and Its Implications for Neuroplas

  • ISBN-13: 9781498524858
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Michael T. Walker
  • Price: AUD $96.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/2018
  • Format: Paperback 254 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: General studies [GTG]
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The Social Construction of Mental Illness and Its Implications for Neuroplasticity examines how the current concept of mental illness in society informs the dialogic skills and perspectives of psychotherapists. The common interpretation of unconventional behavior as a symptom of illness has marginalized the creative class and deterred mental health professionals from developing the skills and perspectives needed to empower their clients. Too often the neuroplasticity of the human brain is ignored in favor of the organizing metaphor of chemical imbalance which often results in the relegation of clients' needs to the pharmaceutical industry. Michael T. Walker encourages psychotherapists to evolve their practice by considering the new information available in neuroscience, psychotherapy outcome studies, and postmodern psychotherapies.
1. The Structure of Social Scientific Revolutions 2. Neuroplasticity 3. The Pragmatists 4. The Postmodernists 5. The Social Construction of Reality 6. Vocabularies, Institutionalization, and Power 7. The DSM Criticized By Its Makers (Applies Equally to ICD) 8. Why this is the Wrong Metaphor to Begin With 9. The Creation of the Patient 10. Unleash This Creativity Onto the World 11. A Postmodern Narrative - the Subjectivity of Compassion 12. The New Psychology is an Art Form 13. If language is so powerful, then what we want is a powerful language - Postmodern Coaching 14. Postmodern Guerilla Tactics in Modernist Institutions
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