
Searching for Normal
- Author Sami Timimi
- Narrator Philip Ishak Arditti
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 20 March 2025
- Run Time 11 hours and 47 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Clinical psychology, Coping with ADHD, Coping with mental health issues, Coping with neurodevelopmental issues, Health economics, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Popular psychology.
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More and more people are being diagnosed with ADHD and autism.
More and more people are being diagnosed with mental disorders.
Young people are being medicalised for behaviours that might be explained as entirely normal in other parts of the world.
Distress has been commodified over many decades by pharmaceutical companies, the media and the psychiatric establishment.
So how can we know when distress is normal and when it is something that needs to be treated?
In Searching for Normal, Dr Sami Timimi explores the political and cultural context of these phenomena and presents, instead, a deeply humane approach that looks at the person as a whole – their family context, their culture, their personal resilience – and advocates for a reframing of how we think about and treat distress.
© Dr Sami Timimi 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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