# Searching for Normal

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- Authors: [Dr Sami Timimi](https://www.bookquiver.com/dr-sami-timimi)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2025-03-20
- Genres: Society and culture: general, Psychology, Economics, Popular medicine and health, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Popular psychology

## Description

A Sunday Times Book of the Year 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.

## Editions

### Searching for Normal

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 11 h 47 min
- Narrated by: Philip Arditti
- ISBN: 978-15-2994-246-0
- Published: 2025-03-20
- Language: en_GB

### Searching for Normal

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2992-491-6
- Published: 2025-03-20
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Searching for Normal](https://www.bookquiver.com/dr-sami-timimi/pl/searching-for-normal) (pl_PL)