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Emancipatory Perspectives on Madness: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Dimensions

Emancipatory Perspectives on Madness: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Dimensions

Paperback

Mental Health

ISBN10: 0367360160
ISBN13: 9780367360160
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 29 2020
Pages: 182
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This collection offers a diverse range of perspectives that seek to find meaning in madness. Mainstream biomedical approaches tend to interpret experiences commonly labelled psychotic as being indicative of a biological illness that can best be ameliorated with prescription drugs. In seeking to counter this perspective, psychosocial outlooks commonly focus on the role of trauma and environmental stress. Although an appreciation for the role of trauma has been critical in expanding the ways in which we view madness, an emphasis of this kind may nevertheless continue to perpetuate a subtle form of reductivism--madness continues to be understood as the product of a deficit. In seeking to move beyond causal-reductivism, this book explores a variety of perspectives on the question of finding inherent meaning in madness and extreme states.

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