Mental illness

Summary: "Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications"--

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ISBN: 9780737775129
ISBN: 0737775122
ISBN: 9780737775136
ISBN: 0737775130
Physical Description: print
224 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2016]

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212) and index.

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What causes mental illness? The social construction of mental illness : power, pathology and PMDD / Rachel V. Isreeli ; Childhood trauma can lead to mental illness / Victor Carrion ; Chronic stress can lead to mental illness / Robert Sanders ; Mental illness is overdiagnosed / Bruce Levine ; That mental illness is common does not mean it is overdiagnosed / Brent Michael Kious -- How should mental illness be treated? Pharmaceuticals are central to the treatment of schizophrenia / Margarita Tartakovsky ; Psychotherapy may be an effective treatment for severe mental illness / Rachel Pruchno ; Better treatment is needed for post-traumatic stress disorder / Lois Beckett ; The PTSD trap : our overdiagnosis of PTSD in vets is enough to make you sick / David Dobbs ; Raising public awareness may reduce male suicide / Dan Bilsker and Jennifer White ; Addressing stigma and masculinity may reduce male suicide / Owen Jones -- Is involuntary treatment for the mentally ill ethical? Involuntary treatment for the mentally ill is dangerous and harmful / Jennifer Friedenbach ; Involuntary commitment is sometimes necessary / John Casada ; Involuntary commitment is unnecessary and discriminatory / Thea Amidov ; Confining the mentally ill in prisons is ineffective and inhumane / E. Fuller Torrey et al. ; Mental hospital care is little better than prison / Chandra Bozelko -- What are issues surrounding violence and the mentally ill? The insanity defense is necessary and moral / Mental Health America ; Stop the insane insanity defense / Sam Vaknin ; Better mental health care can reduce violence / Melissa Healy ; Guns, not the mentally ill, kill people / Abby Rapoport.

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