Madness Cracked by Mick Power
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Overview: This book is a psychological interpretation of mental disorder proposing a theory-grounded classification system as an alternative primarily to the DSM that became atheoretical with its 3rd edition in 1980. To begin, the author distinguishes objective, subjective, and socially constructed versions of madness and continues with an interesting history of diagnostic classification in psychiatry and clinical psychology. Weaknesses of current DSM and WHO ICF approaches are identified and the author proposes his own theory-grounded alternative based on a schematic, propositional, analogical, and associative representational systems (SPAARS) model of cognitive science. The author then integrates the constructs of drives, emotions, and cognitions (DEC) by how one of these constructs defines primary disorder and the other two affect (and are affected) interactively to produce secondary features of disorder.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Health, Fitness & Medical
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