How Long to Read Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorders

How Long Does it Take to Read Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorders?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorders by Donald Kiesler

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Kiesler's Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorder goes beyond recent volumes which argue that psychotropic medications are being overused and abused in contemporary mental health settings. Elliott Valenstein, for example, an emeritus professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan, recently argues that people should be highly suspicious of the claim that all mental illness is primarily a biochemical disorder. In his 1998 book, Blaming the Brain: The Truth about Drugs and Mental Health, Valenstein does not argue that drugs never work or that patients should discontinue taking medication. Valenstein's central point, instead, is that drugs do not attack the real cause of a disorder, since biochemical theories are an unproven hypothesis and probably a false one. Inasmuch as Kiesler's volume is concerned exclusively with scientific explanations of mental disorders, it does not review at all the evidence for psychotropic medications or for other treatments of mental disorders. Kiesler does highlight a message similar to that of Valenstein, who rejects the hypothesis that mental illness is primarily a biochemical disorder. After a comprehensive review of the relevant scientific evidence, Kiesler concludes that henceforth the study of mental disorders must be guided by multicausal theories and research that systematically include an array of biological, psychological, and sociocultural causal factors. Kiesler adds that, in order for this to be accomplished, the mental health field and the public at large must first abandon the invalid monocausal biomedical (disease) model of mental disorder.

How long is Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorders?

Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorders by Donald Kiesler is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorders Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorders aloud.

What Reading Level is Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorders?

Beyond the Disease Model of Mental Disorders is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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