{"product_id":"9780140275407","title":"Madness Explained : Psychosis and Human Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Bentall, Richard P, Beck, Aaron T, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 29\/04\/2004,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 656 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Psychiatry, History of medicine\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780140275407\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIs madness purely a medical condition that can be treated with drugs? Is there really a clear dividing line between mental health and mental illness - or is it not so easy to classify who is sane and who is insane?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Madness Explained leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround psychosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking work argues that we cannot define madness as an illness to be cured like any other; that labels such as 'schizophrenia' and 'manic depression' are meaningless, based on nineteenth-century classifications; and that experiences such as delusions and hearing voices are in fact exaggerations of the mental foibles to which we are all vulnerable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe need, Bentall argues, a radically new way of thinking about psychiatric problems - one that does not reduce madness to brain chemistry, but understands and accepts it as part of human nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35547526824089,"sku":"9780140275407","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780140275407.jpg?v=1597168611","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780140275407","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}