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Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood
by Sami TimimiCurrently, it is common practice among the child psychiatric establishment to prescribe powerful and potentially addictive drugs to children who have emotional or behavioural problems. Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood is a strong challenge to this way of thinking.Sam... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Re-Thinking Autism: Diagnosis, Identity and Equality
by Dan Goodley • Nick Hodge • Anne Mcguire • Rebecca Mallett • Katherine Runswick-Cole • Graham Collins • Brian Mccabe • Clarice Rios • Ginny Russell • Tom Muskett • Sami Timimi • Gail Simon • Francisco Ortega • Rafaela Zorzanelli • Kim Davies • Mark Haydon Laurelut • Richard Hassall • Saqib Latif • Tom BillingtonChallenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this book questions the lazy prejudices and assumptions that can surround autism as a diagnosis in the 21st Century. Arguing that autism can only be understood through exam... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016