A pill for every Human problem !

Critics of medicalization have for some time suggested that many formerly accepted aspects of the human condition have too quickly and too unproblematically been accepted as diagnosable medical conditions (e.g., bereavement, ADHD). Relatedly, critics of psychologization have suggested that human concerns are being reduced to individual, brainbased deficiencies, and are to be treated as such. Further, critics decry a pharmaceutical and technological direction that suggests our future quality of life will be best managed pharmaceutically or through new afective technologies. We are increasingly governing ourselves medically, say these critics. Counselling, in the face of these medicalizing developments, appears to be a modest helping practice. This book examines such critiques while advocating for a pluralistic conversational practice of counseling