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London, Allen Lane, 2015.
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| Description |
xlix, 333pBlack spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
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.
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| Contents |
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.
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| Standard Number |
9781846144653 Hb.
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