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Losing Our Minds : the Challenge of Defining Mental Illness by Dr. Lucy Foulkes is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Losing Our Minds : the Challenge of Defining Mental Illness about?

A compelling and incisive book that questions the overuse of mental health terms to describe universal human emotions. Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of how to define it has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with the inherent stresses and challenges of human experience. A narrative has taken hold that a mental health crisis has been building among young people. In this profoundly sensitive and constructive book, psychologist Lucy Foulkes argues that the crisis is one of ignorance as much as illness. Have we raised a 'snowflake' generation? Or are today's young people subjected to greater stress, exacerbated by social media, than ever before? Foulkes shows that both perspectives are useful but limited. The real question in need of answering is: how should we distinguish between 'normal' suffering and actual illness? Drawing on her extensive knowledge of the scientific and clinical literature, Foulkes explains what is known about mental health problemshow they arise, why they so often appear during adolescence, the various tools we have to cope with thembut also what remains unclear: distingu

Who reads Losing Our Minds : the Challenge of Defining Mental Illness?

Author

Dr. Lucy Foulkes

Publisher

St. Martin's Publishing Group

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250274182

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Psychology Theory, History & Research, Social_sciences