Question 1. Describe what is meant by 'distress' and by experience' and the relationship to our understanding of mental health?
Question 2. What is the DSM? What is it used for?
Question 3. In practical terms, what are the implications of rejecting psychiatric diagnoses in mental health? In other words, what would happen if we were to eliminate psychiatric diagnosis? If the DSM was dismissed and there were no more psychiatric diagnoses? What would happen?
Question 4. Describe the medical, statistical and social definitions of normality
Question 5. Why might we question the notion of 'abnormal psychology'?
Question 6. Compare and contrast the biomedical and the psychosocial approaches.
Question 7. Is this book really just anti-psychiatry? Why or why not? (First, define what is meant by anti-psychiatry)