THE NEW LAWS OF PSYCHOLOGY: WHY NATURE AND NURTURE ALONE CAN’T EXPLAIN HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

Book ID/图书代码： 03275012B57320

English Summary/英文概要： This controversial new book describes how human behaviour - thoughts, emotions, actions and mental health - can be largely explained if we understand how people make sense of their world and how that framework of understanding has been learned. In this ground-breaking book, Peter Kinderman, presents a simple, but radical new model of mental well-being.

Published following the publication of the new edition of the controversial, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the author challenges notions such as ’mental illness’ and ’abnormal psychology’ as old-fashioned, demeaning and invalid, and argues that diagnoses such as ’depression’ and ’schizophrenia’ are unhelpful.

Kinderman argues that one consequence of our current obsession with a medical approach to human well-being and distress, is that human problems are too often merely diagnosed and treated, rather than understood. Witten by an expert in his field, and accessible to all those interested in and affected by mental health issues, The New Laws of Psychology will change the way we define mental illness forever.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部充满争议的全新作品提出，如果我们能够理解人类如何理解自己所处的世界以及他们是如何习得这一理解框架的，我们就能解释包括思维、情感、行动、心理健康等在内的人类行为。这是一部具有突破性的作品，作者提出了一个简单而大胆的心理健康新模型。

本书作者认为，“精神疾病”、“心理异常”这种说法老套且无用，而“抑郁”“精神分裂”等诊断也毫无益处。他认为，目前人们热衷于以医疗方式来对待人类的精神状态，因此仅对人类的各种问题进行诊断和治疗，而并没有深入理解其中的奥秘。这部由该领域专家写作而成的作品通俗易懂，适合所有对心理健康问题感兴趣，或正在受到心理问题困扰的读者阅读，它将永远改变我们对心理疾病的定义。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：绝对是一本精彩的著作。我曾经在开放大学修过一门由心理学家Peter Kinderman教授的“先天vs后天”的课程。如果你对人类行为究竟是由先天决定还是受后天影响这个问题感兴趣，一定要读一读本书。我强烈推荐这本书。

Absolutely fabulous book. I took a course on Nature v Nurture at the Open University with Open Learn and Peter Kinderman was the Psychologist conducting the course. If your interested in whether humans behaviours are wired from birth or is it outside influences that can affect your mental health this is the book to read. Could not recommend this book highly enough.

About the Author/作者介绍： PETER KINDERMAN，利物浦大学心理、健康、社会系临床心理教授、主任。国家统计局技术咨询组国家幸福感测量小组成员。

PETER KINDERMAN, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Head of the Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, is a member of the Office for National Statistics’ Technical Advisory Group for the measurement of national well-being and a consultant to the BBC Headroom campaign.

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