They Say You''re Crazy - How the World''s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who''s Normal

Informationen zum Autor Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D., chosen by the American Psychological Association as an "eminent woman psychologist," is the author of the bestselling The Myth of Women's Masochism and Don't Blame Mother , among other books. She is a clinical and research psychologist. Klappentext Shedding light on the shocking process by which the mental-health elite judge us all! psychologist Paula Caplan debunks and demystifies the intentionally intimidating psychobabble and pronouncements of the American Psychiatric Association. "Gives us a fighting chance to avoid becoming victims of the mental health establishment".--Cleveland Plain Dealer. Zusammenfassung A shocking expose of the process by which the mental-health elite judge us all. Inhaltsverzeichnis * How Do They Decide Who Is Normal? * Whose Normality Is It! Anyway? * Do Mental Health Professionals Think Anyone Is Normal? * How the American Psychiatric Association Decides Who Is Not NormalPart I * How the American Psychiatric Association Decides Who Is Not NormalPart II * Delusional Dominating Personality Disorder: If This Sounds Discouraging! Im Afraid It Is Meant To * How Gatekeeping Replaces Scientific Precision * What Motivates the DSM Authors? * Media: The Good and the Bad * Wheres the Harm! and What Will Help?

Product details

• Authors: Paula Caplan, Paula J. Caplan
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.1996
• EAN: 9780201488326
• ISBN: 978-0-201-48832-6
• No. of pages: 382
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Assessment, Testing & Measurement