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Losing Our Minds
What Mental Illness Really Is - and What It Isn't
Taschenbuch von Lucy Foulkes
Sprache: Englisch

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We need to rethink the conversation around mental health.

Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of what it actually is 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 recent years - one that, with the arrival of Covid-19, is set to get far worse.

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. As the effects of the pandemic take hold, 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 problems - how they arise, why they so often appear during adolescence, the various tools we have to cope with them - but also what remains unclear: distinguishing between normality and disorder is essential if we are to provide the appropriate help, but no clear line between the two exists in nature. She presents the argument that the widespread misunderstanding of this aspect of mental illness might actually be contributing to its apparent prevalence.

Losing Our Minds
provides both the clarity and the nuance that are so urgently needed.

We need to rethink the conversation around mental health.

Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of what it actually is 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 recent years - one that, with the arrival of Covid-19, is set to get far worse.

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. As the effects of the pandemic take hold, 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 problems - how they arise, why they so often appear during adolescence, the various tools we have to cope with them - but also what remains unclear: distinguishing between normality and disorder is essential if we are to provide the appropriate help, but no clear line between the two exists in nature. She presents the argument that the widespread misunderstanding of this aspect of mental illness might actually be contributing to its apparent prevalence.

Losing Our Minds
provides both the clarity and the nuance that are so urgently needed.

Über den Autor
Lucy Foulkes
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Angewandte Psychologie
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781847926395
ISBN-10: 1847926398
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 754223
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Foulkes, Lucy
Hersteller: Vintage Publishing
Maße: 233 x 152 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Lucy Foulkes
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,3 kg
Artikel-ID: 119029009
Über den Autor
Lucy Foulkes
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Angewandte Psychologie
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781847926395
ISBN-10: 1847926398
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 754223
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Foulkes, Lucy
Hersteller: Vintage Publishing
Maße: 233 x 152 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Lucy Foulkes
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,3 kg
Artikel-ID: 119029009
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