Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health Spaces, Places, People and Activities /

• Main Authors: Walker, Carl (Author), Hart, Angie (Author), Hanna, Paul (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Social work.; Social service.; Clinical psychology.; Psychology, Pathological.; Critical psychology.; Psychopathology.; Clinical Psychology.; Critical Psychology.; Social Work and Community Development.; Social Work.

This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress. It starts from the premise that contemporary mainstream psychiatry and psychology struggle to capture how distress results from complex embodied arrays of social experiences that are embe...