Searching for normal : a new approach to understanding mental health, distress and neurodiversity
Timimi, Sami2025
Book
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.
Main title:
Author:
Timimi, Sami, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Fern Press, 2025.
Collation:
343 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781911717126 (hbk)
Dewey class:
155.5124
Language:
English
BRN:
3950365