Books by Mary Boyle

The current mainstream way of describing psychological and emotional distress assumes it is the result of medical illnesses that need diagnosing and treating. This book summarises the Power Threat Meaning Framework as an alternative to psychiatric diagnosis - an alternative that asks not 'What's wrong with you?' but 'What's happened to you?'

When first published, this volume made a very significant contribution to the debates on the concepts of schizophrenia and mental illness. This second edition provides a critical analysis of the debates since the 1990s.