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Dr Sami Timimi
ADHD remains a controversial condition. Opinions are polarised with each side holding passionate views about the nature of this disorder and how best to help those that attract the label…
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Sami Timimi
Boys in the West are being labelled as having psychiatric disorders, behaviour problems and special educational needs, and are receiving psychiatric drugs in ever-greater numbers.
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Prescribing powerful and potentially addictive drugs to children who have emotional or behavioural problems has become common practice. This title urges childcare professionals to question their assumptions so they are…
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Rates of diagnosis of psychiatric disorders in children have shot up in recent years. So too has the prescription of antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs and stimulants. Yet the diagnoses are…
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Sami Timimi,Jonathan Leo
This book brings together, for the first time, a selection of international critiques on the role of ADHD in our society today, looking at how diagnoses have increased in recent…
In recent years, dramatic transformations in social and political structures worldwide have increased the problems of domination, alienation, consumerism, class, gender, religion, race and ethnicity. This book confronts the psychological…
Sami Timimi,Neil Gardner,Brian McCabe
In this groundbreaking book, the authors dispute the concept of autism and explore the cultural and political reasons why the number of those diagnosed with it has increased over the…
Suitable for students of mental health disciplines, psychiatric service users, and carers, this book offers information that you need to make informed choices about a child’s diagnosis and treatment. It…
Disputing the existing accepted approaches to autism and the focus on diagnosis and ‘treatment’, this book challenges the attitudes, assumptions and prejudices around autism that are generated from the medical…
