Our necessary shadow
the nature and meaning of psychiatry
Book - 2014
A lot is written about psychiatry and the things it deals with, but very little that describes psychiatry itself. Why should there be such a need? There isn't a raft of books explaining all the other branches of medicine.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Our necessary shadow : |b the nature and meaning of psychiatry / |c Tom Burns. |
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| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Pegasus Books, |c 2014. | |
| 300 | |a xlix, 332 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-309) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Introduction: What is psychiatry and what is it for? -- |t What to expect if you are referred to a psychiatrist -- |g Part one. |t How modern psychiatry developed. |t The origins of institutional psychiatry -- |t The discovery of the unconscious -- |t The rise and fall of psychoanalysis -- |t The first medical model (between the wars) -- |t The impact of war -- |t Out of the asylum - the origins of community care -- |g Part two. |t The questions psychiatry asks about us and the questions we ask of it. |t Is mental illness real? Psychiatry's legitimacy -- |t Is psychiatry trustworthy? Psychiatry's sins and abuses -- |t Is bad behavior any of our business? Psychiatry and the law -- |t A diagnosis for everything and the medicalization of everyday life -- |t New treatments but old dilemmas -- |t The rise of neuroscience and the future of psychiatry -- |g Epilogue. |
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