Psychology, Mental Health and Distress

A bargain used book buy, wanted as part of my MSc studies, very pleased.

This book offers very clear information on a fresh and emerging perspective in Psychology. There are balanced arguments and lots of research used to support concepts.

Everyone studying or interested in abnormal psychology should read this. A fresh new look at the truth behind distress as well as alternatives to medication and the DSM.

Excellent resource for my abnormal psych class but I really find the print frustrating because the font size is so small.

I would thoroughly recommend this book to any student of psychology and believe it should be required reading for all doctors who decide to specialise in psychiatry. The tide is turning away from traditional psychiatry in regard to the categorisation of mental illness, speeded up by the publishing of the dire DSM-5 in 2013. Cromby’s book demonstrates that formulation trumps diagnosis as a way of understanding distress and offers a valid alternative to labelling an individual with a fictitious ‘disease’ invented (by and large) to serve the pharmaceutical industry, rather than providing genuine help to the distressed individual.Thoroughly recommended.