The Future of Mental Health: Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm - Hardcover

-Eric Maisel goes a long way toward explaining our current situation and pointing us in new directions in his excellent new book. Highly recommended!- --Louis Breger, Founding President, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis -Dr. Maisel's bold new book is a refreshing seed in [the] forlorn mental health landscape. Maisel not only paints a picture of what a new mental health countryside could look like, but he also provides useful suggestions of how we might get there and why it might be important that we start heading in that direction today.- --Tim Carey, Director of the Centre for Remote Health, a joint centre of Flinders University and Charles Darwin University, blogger at Psychology Today -Dr. Maisel envisions a new paradigm and framework that restores compassion, complexity, and dignity to the care of suffering souls. A ground-breaking book, a clarion call and a bold vision.- --Shawn Rubin, Editor in Chief, Journal of Humanistic Psychology and co-editor, University Professors Press -Eric Maisel's book is extraordinary. Profoundly innovative and revolutionary, it describes the Herculean but not impossible tasks facing the mental health establishment and reshuffles all the cards in psychiatry.- --Patrick Landman, Psychiatrist, Chairman, STOP DSM France -Maisel really throws the gauntlet down with this one, and the psychiatric community will find it difficult to ignore his challenge.- --Mark D. White, Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, blogger at Psychology Today, and author of The Illusion of Well-Being -The Future of Mental Health is a highly readable, compelling and challenging book on a topic that affects all of us. Everyone should read it! A wonderful and much needed book.- - Anne Cooke, Clinical Director, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, coeditor Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Understanding Bipolar Disorder "Eric Maisel goes a long way toward explaining our current situation and pointing us in new directions in his excellent new book. Highly recommended!" --Louis Breger, Founding President, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis "Dr. Maisel's bold new book is a refreshing seed in [the] forlorn mental health landscape. Maisel not only paints a picture of what a new mental health countryside could look like, but he also provides useful suggestions of how we might get there and why it might be important that we start heading in that direction today." --Tim Carey, Director of the Centre for Remote Health, a joint centre of Flinders University and Charles Darwin University, blogger at Psychology Today "Dr. Maisel envisions a new paradigm and framework that restores compassion, complexity, and dignity to the care of suffering souls. A ground-breaking book, a clarion call and a bold vision." --Shawn Rubin, Editor in Chief, Journal of Humanistic Psychology and co-editor, University Professors Press "Eric Maisel's book is extraordinary. Profoundly innovative and revolutionary, it describes the Herculean but not impossible tasks facing the mental health establishment and reshuffles all the cards in psychiatry." --Patrick Landman, Psychiatrist, Chairman, STOP DSM France "Maisel really throws the gauntlet down with this one, and the psychiatric community will find it difficult to ignore his challenge." --Mark D. White, Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, blogger at Psychology Today, and author of The Illusion of Well-Being "The Future of Mental Health is a highly readable, compelling and challenging book on a topic that affects all of us. Everyone should read it! A wonderful and much needed book." - Anne Cooke, Clinical Director, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, coeditor Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Understanding Bipolar Disorder "Eric Maisel goes a long way toward explaining our current situation and pointing us in new directions in his excellent new book. Highly recommended!" --Louis Breger, Founding President, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis "Dr. Maisel's bold new book is a refreshing seed in [the] forlorn mental health landscape. Maisel not only paints a picture of what a new mental health countryside could look like, but he also provides useful suggestions of how we might get there and why it might be important that we start heading in that direction today." --Tim Carey, Director of the Centre for Remote Health, a joint centre of Flinders University and Charles Darwin University, blogger at Psychology Today "Dr. Maisel envisions a new paradigm and framework that restores compassion, complexity, and dignity to the care of suffering souls. A ground-breaking book, a clarion call and a bold vision." --Shawn Rubin, Editor in Chief, Journal of Humanistic Psychology and co-editor, University Professors Press "Eric Maisel's book is extraordinary. Profoundly innovative and revolutionary, it describes the Herculean but not impossible tasks facing the mental health establishment and reshuffles all the cards in psychiatry." --Patrick Landman, Psychiatrist, Chairman, STOP DSM France "Maisel really throws the gauntlet down with this one, and the psychiatric community will find it difficult to ignore his challenge." --Mark D. White, Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, blogger at Psychology Today, and author of The Illusion of Well-Being "The Future of Mental Health is a highly readable, compelling and challenging book on a topic that affects all of us. Everyone should read it! A wonderful and much needed book." - Anne Cooke, Clinical Director, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, coeditor Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Understanding Bipolar Disorder "The Future of Mental Health is a highly readable, compelling and challenging book on a topic that affects all of us. Everyone should read it! A wonderful and much needed book." - Anne Cooke, Clinical Director, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, co-editor Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Understanding Bipolar Disorder "Dr. Maisel envisions a new paradigm and framework that restores compassion, complexity, and dignity to the care of suffering souls. A ground-breaking book, a clarion call and a bold vision." --Shawn Rubin, PsyD, Saybrook University Chair, School of Clinical Psychology, Editor in Chief, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Co-Editor in Chief, University Professors Press "Maisel really throws the gauntlet down with this one, and the psychiatric community will find it difficult to ignore his challenge." --Mark D. White, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, blogger at Psychology Today, and author of The Illusion of Well-Being "Eric Maisel's book is extraordinary. Profoundly innovative and revolutionary, it describes the Herculean but not impossible tasks facing the mental health establishment and reshuffles all the cards in psychiatry." --Patrick Landman, Psychiatrist, Child Psychiatrist, Chairman, STOP DSM France "Dr. Maisel's bold new book The Future of Mental Health is a refreshing seed in what otherwise might be considered a forlorn mental health landscape. Maisel not only paints a picture of what a new mental health countryside could look like but he also provides useful suggestions of how we might get there and why it might be important that we start heading in that direction today." --Tim Carey, Head of Research, Centre for Remote Health, Central Australian Health Service; Chair, Regional, Rural, and Remote Advisory Group, Australian Psychological Society