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Crazy Analysis: Understand the causative factors of modern mental diseases such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia at once from social cognition
Crazy Analysis: Understand the causative factors of modern mental diseases such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia at once from social cognition
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Save the out-of-control biological psychiatry, this epoch-making work of clinical psychology analyzes the multiple causes of disease and breaks the social myths and stigmas about mental illness.
★2004 British Psychological Society Book of the Year
"Illusions are like homosexuals in the 1950s. They need to be liberated, not cured." ─ Marius Röhm (Professor of Social Psychiatry, University of Limburg)
"Madness does not have to be considered a disease; why not think of it as an almost sudden change of character?" ─ Wittgenstein
What are the causes of mental illness?
Are there only a few specific causes?
This question has puzzled the academic community for a long time. With the evolution of brain science, everyone seems to have finally found the answer. For example, schizophrenia is thought to be related to an excess of dopamine, and antipsychotics help relieve symptoms by blocking dopamine reception.
However, this kind of biomedical research/diagnosis and treatment has encountered the problem of drug ineffectiveness in some patients. The academic community has never reached a consensus on whether the concentration changes of chemical substances in the brain are the cause or the result.
More importantly, is the way we view mental illness really limited to equating it with brain damage, and then deeming the patient's behavior to be "incomprehensible" and "lack of meaning", and that their behavior is just a neurological or genetic defect? product?
Bentall, the author of this book, proposes a theory of psychosis that combines biology, psychology and social science based on clinical experience. Because the brain adapts to the environment according to the stimuli it receives, abnormalities in the brain are likely to reflect the patient's negative experiences and may not necessarily be congenital lesions. In fact, childhood family relationships, environmental stress and trauma are all psychosocial factors that lead to individual cognitive and emotional dysfunction. This book further uses the social brain hypothesis to point out that depression, bipolar disorder, and the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia are all related to social distress. By introducing experiments that "detect different psychological functions", readers can easily understand the risk factors for various diseases.
In recent years, mental appraisals and verdicts in major judicial cases have often polarized public opinion. This book emphasizes that madness is not only related to physiological factors, but also has psychological and cultural aspects. This just allows us to reflect: How should society treat mental patients? If drugs are not the only solution to mental illness, can we start with conversation, cognition, and behavior? Is the line between normal and crazy so clear? "Crazy Analysis" hopes to invite readers to think about these questions together.
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