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Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. First Trade Paperback Edition. Part of a collection of social science books just removed from storage where they have been since the 1990s following review for an academic publication. To get them listed expeditiously, we are foregoing our usual detailed descriptions: we trust you'll know if a book is what you're looking for! You can be sure that, unless otherwise noted, ALL are LIKE NEW & unopened. This is the First Printing of the First Trade paperback edition of this book from 1995. It is Fine: completely clean & unmarked, bindings straight & strong, pages white. A chance to build your library with essentially new books that have been long out of print or not seen the light of day in decades! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends, & holidays ship very next business day. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. original laminated hardcover, 167 pages, near fine. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf N41.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Neu. `Fast becoming a contemporary classic. this book tries both to be critical and engender critical thinking in a number of ways. It offers an overview of a number of theories that address human distress as well as particular forms of "pathology". This book effectively highlights the way that western society has taken "normal"; and "abnormal" emotional states to be factual entities rather than the constructed understandings of human phenomena that they are. should be on the reading list of every course/module that attends to human distress? - Journal of the Society for Existential AnalysisThis practical and accessible critique of the institutions, practices and presuppositions that underlie the study of `psychopathology? will be invaluable for students and practitioners who are working to understand mental health and distress.The authors - who come from backgrounds in clinical psychology, psychiatric social work, psychoanalysis, psychology teaching and action research - challenge the traditions of the field. They analyze the notion of `psychopathology? as a conventional term in psychology and psychiatry through the language and institutions that hold it in place; and explore the implications of deconstructive ideas for the theories and practices that sustain clinical treatments; and offer an alternative way of seeing `psychopathology?, with accounts of critical professional work and good practice.Deconstructing Psychopathology is invaluable reading for students, academics and practitioners across a range of disciplines who are working to understand mental health and distress, includingclinical and counselling psychology, psychiatry, psychiatric social work, counselling and psychotherapy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 384.…