Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness

In Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness: Rethinking the Nature of Our Woes , Richard Hallam takes aim at the very concept of mental illness, and explores new ways of thinking about and responding to psychological distress. Though the concept of mental illness has infiltrated everyday language, academic research, and public policy-making, there is very little evidence that woes are caused by somatic dysfunction. This timely book rebuts arguments put forward to defend the illness myth and trac