ID | 019616 |
Call Number | 616.89/BUR |
Title Proper | Our necessary shadow |
Other Title Information | The nature and meaning of psychiatry |
Language | ENG |
Author | Burns, Tom |
Publication | London, Allen Lane, 2015. |
Description | xlix, 333p Black spine |
Note | Tom Burns reviews the historical development of psychiatry, the places where there is much agreement on treatment and where there is not, throughout alert to where psychiatry helps, and where it is imperfect. What is clear is that mental illnesses are intimately tied to what makes us human in the first place. And the drive to relieve the suffering they cause is even more human. Psychiatry, for all its flaws, currently represents our best attempts to discharge this most human of impulses. It is not something we can just ignore. It is our necessary shadow. Tom Burns is Professor of Social Psychiatry at Oxford University. From the late 1980s he has conducted research, in addition his clinical and teaching work, and has produced nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles. |
Note | Part 1: How modern psychiatry developed The origins of institutional psychiatry The discovery of the unconscious The rise and fall of psychoanalysis The first medical model (between the wars) The impact of war Out of the asylum The origins of community care Part 2: The questions psychiatry asks about us and the questions we ask of it Is mental illness real? Psychiatry's legitimacy Is psychiatry trustworthy? Psychiatry's sins and abuses Is bad behaviour any of our business? Psychiatry and the law A diagnosis for everything and the medicalization of everyday life New treatments but old dilemmas The rise of neuroscience and the future of psychiatry. |
Standard Number | 9781846144653 |
Price. Qualification | £8.95(Hb) |
Classification Number | 616.89 |
Key Words | Psychology ; IBDP ; Psychiatry - History |