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Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health de Steven James Bartlett

Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health

Autor Steven James Bartlett
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 sep 2011 – vârsta până la 17 ani

"Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health" is a groundbreaking work, the first book-length study to question the equation of psychological normality and mental health. Its author, Dr. Steven James Bartlett, musters compelling evidence and careful analysis to challenge the paradigm accepted by mental health theorists and practitioners, a paradigm that is not only wrong, but can be damaging to those to whom it is applied--and to society as a whole.

In this bold, multidisciplinary work, Bartlett critiques the presumed standard of normality that permeates contemporary consciousness. Showing that the current concept of mental illness is fundamentally unacceptable because it is scientifically unfounded and the result of flawed thinking, he argues that adherence to the gold standard of psychological normality leads to nothing less than cultural impoverishment.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313399312
ISBN-10: 031339931X
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

An account of the principal contributors who have urged that psychological normality is not a desirable or justifiable standard of good mental health

Notă biografică

Steven James Bartlett, PhD, is visiting scholar in psychology at Willamette University, Salem, OR; is senior research professor at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and has published 14 books and monographs and numerous papers in the fields of psychology and epistemology.

Cuprins

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note on ConventionsIntroductionPart I. Normality and Mental HealthChapter 1. Questioning the Standard of Normality: Steps to a More Effective Understanding of Mental HealthFrom the "Banality of Evil" to the "Evil of Banality"The Dispositional Pathology of Psychological NormalityPsychological Normality Is Not Mental HealthPositive Illusion and Resistance to the Pathology of NormalityWhere We Might Go from HereToward a More Effective Understanding of Mental HealthMental Health as Exception to the RuleA Preliminary ConclusionChapter 2. The Psychology of Definition in Psychiatric NosologyThe Need for a Psychology of DefinitionThe Purposes of Definition in Psychiatric NosologiesStipulative Definitions as Sources of AuthorityReal Definition and ReificationDefining Mental Disorders into ExistenceThe Dysfunctional Nature of the Psychology of DefinitionChoices in the Interpretation and Recognition of Disease: Physical Pathology and Mental DisorderThe Psychology of Symptom ClusteringPsychiatry's Inflationary OntologyThe Concept of Mental Illness Is No Myth but the Result of Dysfunctional ThoughtThe Psychology of Resistance to Idiopathic DiseaseDo Internal Malfunctions or Dysfunctions Underlie Psychiatric Syndromes?The Psychology of Definition and Claims to TruthThe Next Step in ReificationIntelligent Science and Stopgap DefinitionsTo SummarizeIs Nosology Essential to Effective Clinical Practice?Chapter 3. The Abnormal Psychology of Creativity and the Pathology of NormalityThe Abnormal Psychology of CreativityThe Inner Turmoil ThesisWho Is Harmed? The Ascription of PathologyThe Situational ThesisThe Psychopathology of NormalityThe Psychiatric Plight of the ArtistAfterwordPart II. Psychology During a Collapse of CultureChapter 4. Acedia: When Work and Money Are the Exclusive ValuesWork and Cultural BankruptcyThe Symptoms of AcediaAcedia: Moral Failure or Psychiatric Disorder?Treatment of Work-Engendered DepressionChapter 5. Barbarians at the Door: A Psychological and Historical Profile of Today's College StudentsWhat Higher Education MeantThe Degradation of the Ideal of Higher Education as a Result of Democratic ValuesThe Self-undermining History of Higher Education in AmericaThe Pathology of NarcissismBarbarity as a State of MindThe Mediocre Population, the New BarbariansThe New Dark Age, Already in Progress, and the Disappearance of Higher EducationSobering ReflectionsChapter 6. Psychology, Culture, and the Demoralization of University FacultyThe Nature of Career BurnoutThe Concept of Situational DepressionThe Situation in the Liberal ArtsSituational Depression of Faculty in the Liberal ArtsAdjustment Disorders and the Liberal ArtsTreatment for Liberal Arts DemoralizationPart III. Beyond Long-standing FactsChapter 7. The Psychology of Abuse in Publishing: Peer Review and Editorial BiasGag Orders through Time: Socrates, Savonarola, Copernicus, Bruno, GalileoReligious Belief, Imprimatur, the Inquisition, and the Index Librorum ProhibitorumSedition, Treason, Censors, and CensorshipAcademic Freedom versus Peer Review and Editorial TamperingRunning Afoul of the Belief Systems of Peer Reviewers and Editors: Varieties of Abuse in Peer Review and Editorial TamperingThe Psychopathology of Peer Review and Editorial Bias: Blocks to Creative ResearchObligations to Which Peer Review and Editing Must AnswerA Code of Conduct for Peer Reviewers and EditorsRemoving the Psychological Obstacles Erected by Peer ReviewConclusionChapter 8. The Psychology of Mediocrity: Internal Limitations That Block Human DevelopmentA Brief History of a Mundane Trinity: Mediocrity, Mediocre, MediocracyPast Attempts to Understand the Psychology of MediocrityMediocrity as a Set of TraitsThe Major Defining Traits of Mediocrity"People Who Aren't Real"Resistance to Acknowledging Individual Differences in AbilitiesThe Epidemic of MediocrityMediocrity: Arrhostia or Spandrel?Traits of Excellence and SuperiorityRejecting Normality as a Standard of Mental HealthThe Transmission of Mediocrity"A Room of One's Own": The View from the Third FloorChapter 9. Normality, Pathology, and Mental HealthThe Romanes PrincipleTwo Promising Directions and Two Kinds of PathologyCreating Mental Disorders by BallotPsychological Resistance to the Abandonment of Psychological Normality as Mental HealthPsychological PrimitivenessIatrogenic Effects of Psychiatric LabelingAfterwordPart IV. In RetrospectChapter 10. The Reflexive Turn in PsychologyThe Economics of Human EmotionThe Psychological Dynamic of a Dark AgeSubordinating Mundane RealityPractical ImplicationsIdealism That Is Not HopefulAppendix I. An Apology to Lovers of Humanity?Appendix II. Practical Speculations, or Speculative PracticesAppendix III. The Distribution of Mental HealthReferencesIndex

Recenzii

"Well-written and clearly structured. . . . I wish everyone would read Bartlett's chapter in Normality on the abuses of peer review and editorial bias (Chapter 7) and adopt his proposed code of conduct for peer reviewers and editors (p. 172). And Bartlett's treatment of relativism, the relativity of frameworks, and human evil in Pathology is absolutely limpid (Chapter 20)."
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Descriere

Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health is a groundbreaking work, the first book-length study to question the equation of psychological normality and mental health. Its author, Dr. Steven James Bartlett, musters compelling evidence and careful analysis to challenge the paradigm accepted by mental health theorists and practitioners, a paradigm that is not only wrong, but can be damaging to those to whom it is applied—and to society as a whole.
In this bold, multidisciplinary work, Bartlett critiques the presumed standard of normality that permeates contemporary consciousness. Showing that the current concept of mental illness is fundamentally unacceptable because it is scientifically unfounded and the result of flawed thinking, he argues that adherence to the gold standard of psychological normality leads to nothing less than cultural impoverishment.