Resultaten voor 'james davies'

Drop the Disorder + Do Something!

This powerful follow-up to the first Drop the Disorder! book (PCCS Books, 2019) assembles a huge array of contributors who write about what they have done and are doing to actively challenge and change the mainstream narrative around mental health and 'disorders'.

1. James Davies

Body

The Sunday Times bestseller with all the strategies you need to prevent pain and fuel your body to its fullest health potential. ‘James is incredible – he has played a huge role in helping me manage my fitness and recover from injury over the years’ David Beckham

1. James Davies

Sedated

A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness.

1. James Davies

The Making of Psychotherapists

Submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. This book uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform trainees into professionals. It also exposes the often subtle but deeply penetrating effects psychoanalytic training has upon all who pass through it.

1. Joel Vos
2. Ron Roberts
3. James Davies

Mental Health in Crisis

Broad-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the mental health crisis examining the current challenges in mental health service delivery and access using a range of perspectives

1. James Davies

The Importance of Suffering

"James Davies offers a highly original and insightful approach that restores the vital place of suffering in human development. Drawing from anthropology, philosophy and psychology Davies weaves a rich narrative that deserves to be widely read." - Alistair Ross, Oxford University, UK "This book, fluently and engagingly written, takes us back a number of decades to the exciting times of Szasz, Laing and others, and the revolutionary assertion that the origin of suffering is due to an unduly oppressive social environment. It asks us to take our leave of the pathologising foundations of most current therapies, and resist complying with that ill-considered theorising... Such a prodding enlivens one's critical stance to what we as therapists do, and places the book next to classics like Philip Rief's The Triumph of the Therapeutic, and Ian Craib's The Importance of Disappointment." - R. D. Hinshelwood, University of Essex, UK "The Importance of Suffering is a brave and creative work that will change how we think about human suffering. Critiquing the ideology of anesthetization that characterizes modern-day life, Davies demonstrates – with great sensitivity and depth – how suffering can be leveraged for positive growth and change when not exiled from human experience. This is a bold and hopeful book; a major contribution." - Rebecca J. Lester, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA "This book offers a deeply informed and nuanced understanding of the value of suffering, when productively engaged. Elegantly written in crisp prose, it offers an incisive critique of the medicalization of suffering when narrowly conceived as disorder to be treated by anti-depressant medications and prescriptions for "positive thinking". Rich in insights of value to psychoanalysts, philosophers, psychologists, and the broadly educated European and North American public." - Janis H. Jenkins, University of California at San Diego, USA