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  • The Future of Mental Health

  • Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm
  • By: Eric Maisel
  • Narrated by: Owen Daly
  • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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The Future of Mental Health

By: Eric Maisel
Narrated by: Owen Daly
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The Future of Mental Health drills to the heart of the current mental health crisis, where hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide receive unwarranted "mental disorder" diagnoses. It paints a picture of how mental health providers can improve their practices to better serve individuals in distress and outlines necessary steps for a mental health revolution.

Eric Maisel's goal is to inject more human interaction into the therapeutic process. Maisel powerfully deconstructs the "mental disorder" paradigm that is the foundation of current mental health practices. The author presents a revolutionary alternative, a "human experience" paradigm. He sheds a bright light on the differences between so-called "psychiatric medication" and mere chemicals with powerful effects and explains why the DSM-5 is silent on causes, silent on treatment, and wedded to illegitimate "symptom pictures". Maisel describes powerful helping alternatives like communities of care and explains why one day "human experience specialists" may replace current mental health professionals.

An important book for both service providers and service users, The Future of Mental Health brilliantly unmasks current mental health practices and goes an important step further: It describes what we are obliged to do in order to secure better mental health services - and better mental health.

©2015 Eric Maisel (P)2015 New Street Communications, LLC
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"Maisel goes a long way toward explaining our current situation and pointing us in new directions in his excellent new book. Highly recommended!" (Louis Breger, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis)
"Profoundly innovative and revolutionary.... [Maisel] describes the Herculean but not impossible tasks facing the mental health establishment and reshuffles all the cards in psychiatry." (Patrick Landman, psychiatrist; child psychiatrist; chairman, STOP DSM)

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True future of behavioral health

This book was s full of wisdom. I am listening to this t the second time and a will the third and four if needed.
I liked most how Dr. Eric aligns his argument.

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THIS is how mental health SHOULD go!

Things I've already implemented in my own practice- but w amazing ideas and proposals to get our country out of the habit of NAME CALLING (diagnoses)!

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Life Experience Specialist

Brilliant! Way ahead of the Curve! I Can’t get enough of how spot on he was, is, and I will continue to see to it that this field loses the nasty STIGMA to better All Human Kind! Language Matters!

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