Normality does not equal mental health: the need to look elsewhere for standards of good psychological health

How do you define good mental health? This controversial, counterintuitive, and altogether fascinating book argues that "psychological normality" is neither a desirable nor an acceptable standard.

- Multiple descriptive examples of ways in which the equation of psychological normality with good mental health leads us astray

- An account of the principal contributors who have urged that psychological normality is not a desirable or justifiable standard of good mental health

- A historical account of the main psychological factors that have led to our current failing model and practice of higher education