What is mental illness?

McNally, Richard J.

What is mental illness? [electronic resource] / Richard J. McNally. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2011. - 277 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An epidemic of madness? -- Are we pathologizing everyday life? -- Can evolutionary psychology make sense of mental disorder? -- Psychopathology as adaptation? -- Does society create (some) mental disorders? -- Is it in our genes? -- Do mental disorders differ by kind or degree? -- So what is mental illness anyway?.


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Mental illness.
Mental illness--United States.


Electronic books.

RC454 / .M326 2011eb

616.89