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Challenging the complacency surrounding therapy and mental health, this book employs Social Contextual Analysis to explore the impact of social, discursive, and societal environments on therapeutic practices. It emphasizes the need to understand therapy within a broader context, highlighting how external factors shape mental health behaviors and perceptions. The work encourages a reevaluation of conventional approaches, advocating for a more nuanced understanding of therapy's role in contemporary society.

This book attempts to 'shake up' the current complacency around therapy and 'mental health' behaviours by putting therapy fully into context using Social Contextual Analysis, showing how changes to our social, discursive and societal environments.

By deconstructing modern talking therapies, this book explores how societal structures impact mental health and limit opportunities. It presents a fresh perspective on psychology, emphasizing the influence of social environments on behavior rather than solely internal factors. As part of a trilogy, it aims to redefine the approach to mental health, advocating for a broader understanding of the interplay between individual experiences and societal contexts.

This book shows how everything we do is social and how research from social anthropology, sociolinguistics, and sociology can be integrated into a new form of psychology. It is part of a trilogy that offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people's social environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal attributions.

This book puts the 'social' back into social psychology and offers a more integrated way of thinking about and researching people and intervening to change what people do. It is part of a trilogy that offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people's social environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal attributions.

Exploring the frameworks surrounding mental health, this book critiques conventional Western models by incorporating case studies from various indigenous groups. It seeks to broaden the understanding of mental illness within diverse cultural and philosophical contexts, challenging prevailing narratives and encouraging a re-evaluation of mental health concepts.

'How to Rethink Mental Illness' looks at the dominant structures and ideas through we understand mental health and mental illness, and using case studies from a range of indigenous groups, places western models in a broader cultural and philosophical context.

Exploring human thought, emotion, and behavior, this guide emphasizes six key societal forces: social, economic, environmental, bodily, historical, and cultural. It offers an interdisciplinary approach tailored for students, facilitating a deeper understanding of how these contexts shape individual and collective experiences in the social world.

Offering innovative metaphors, this book encourages a fresh perspective on psychology and social behavior. Rather than adhering to a singular grand theory, it invites readers to rethink their understanding of human interactions and behaviors, fostering new ways to observe, engage, and conduct research in the field of psychology.