Understanding Mental Health A Critical Realist Exploration

"[The book] steers a middle way between psychiatric positivism and the nihilism of the recent French post-structuralist tradition. ... [T]he guidance comes from philosophy, ... from ... Roy Bhaskar. He and others in his wake have offered us an escape route from the cul-de-sac options of naïve realism and unending postmodern scepticism."--Page [i].