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  • 2025

Searching for normal

a new approach to understanding mental health, distress, and neurodiversity

Sami Timimi

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"More and more people are being diagnosed with ADHD and autism. More and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders. Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world. Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment. So how can we know when distress is normal and when it is something that needs to be treated? In Searching for Normal, Dr Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents, instead, a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole-their family context, their culture, their personal resilience -- and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress"--

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Title Statement Searching for normal: a new approach to understanding mental health, distress, and neurodiversity / Sami Timimi.
Author Timimi, Sami
Publication Toronto, ON: Signal/McClelland & Stewart,2025.
Extent of Item 343 pages ;
ISBN 9780771013102 (hardcover)
Other Number pr08101349
Contents Changing times --What is mental health? --Psychiatric diagnoses are facts of culture not nature --Concept expansion --The creation of ADHD --Is ADHD an evidence-based construct? --The creation of autism --Is autism an evidence-based construct? --Start them young --Conveyor-belt therapy --The mental health industrial complex (MHIC) --Neurodiversity, gender and new human typologies --Living in a compare-and-compete culture --Colonial psychiatry --Rehabilitating emotions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "More and more people are being diagnosed with ADHD and autism. More and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders. Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world. Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment. So how can we know when distress is normal and when it is something that needs to be treated? In Searching for Normal, Dr Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents, instead, a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole-their family context, their culture, their personal resilience -- and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress"--
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Distress in adolescents
Distress (Psychology)
Mental health
Neurodiversity
Neuroses--Diagnosis
Neuroses--Treatment
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