Searching for normal

Sami Timimi

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More and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders. Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world. Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment. So how can we know when distress is normal and when it is something that needs to be treated? In this book, Dr Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents, instead, a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole - their family context, their culture, their personal resilience - and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress.


Author(s): Timimi, Sami
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 20/03/2025
Pagination: 352 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Fern Press
Published By: Fern Press
Book Classification: Popular psychology|Illness & addiction: social aspects|Health economics|Health economics|Health economics|Child, developmental, and lifespan psychology
Dimensions: 242x163x31
Weight: 556
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781911717126

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