MisDiagnosed, Jonathan Foiles
MisDiagnosed, Jonathan Foiles
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(Mis)Diagnosed
How Bias Distorts Our Perception of Mental Health

Author: Jonathan Foiles

Narrator: Noah Michael Levine

Unabridged: 3 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/21/2021


Synopsis

Why are women more likely to be labeled borderline personalities? Is transphobia being treated as was homosexuality in the past? Has "protest psychosis," a term used to diagnose Black men during the civil rights era, simply been renamed schizoaffective disorder? How different is our current label of "intellectual disability" from the history of eugenics? What, in other words, does it mean to be diagnosed with a "mental illness"?

In his clear, empathetic style, Jonathan Foiles, author of the critically acclaimed This City Is Killing Me, walks us through these and other troubling examples of bias in mental health, placing them in context of past blunders in the history of psychiatry and the DSM. Diagnoses are helpful but not necessary, he argues, and here he offers a pragmatic and sympathetic guide to how we might craft a better and more just therapeutic future.

About Jonathan Foiles

Jonathan Foiles is a lecturer at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. He is the author of This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nathan on October 15, 2021

This is a very easy to read and recommend book that explores the faults within our cultural understanding of mental illness. And while I think this could’ve gone more in depth in basically every way, this books is a brilliant as a way to start a conversation and I really hope this author does some f......more

Goodreads review by Rick on October 03, 2021

A decent reiteration of the fact that the field of psychology and the DSM is a tremendously flawed method of organization for the wide variety of personal experiences and mental disorders. This book convincingly talks about how the field is oriented in such a way as to disproportionately negatively......more

Goodreads review by Corvus on February 23, 2024

A decent short and sweet pop psych book that balances the reality of mental health and illness existing with the very real problems regarding it's weaponization, mishandling, misdiagnosis, stigma, systemic inequalities, etc in regards to oppressed peoples. Wish it was longer in my case. I knew a lot......more

Goodreads review by Allison on September 03, 2024

4.5 stars......more

Goodreads review by Jacey on December 04, 2024

5/5 12/4/2024 Phenomenal. We need more people like Jonathan Foiles in the mental health field. Empathetic and caring with an emphasis on equity and an understanding that the DSM-V is far from perfect and largely based on research involving mostly White people and that diagnoses are helpful but should......more