Download or read book De-Medicalizing Misery written by M. Rapley and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. The book rethinks madness and distress reclaiming them as human, not medical, experiences.