Doctoring the mind : is our current treatment of mental illness really any good? / Richard P. Bentall.
2009
616.89 B475d 2009
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Title
Doctoring the mind : is our current treatment of mental illness really any good? / Richard P. Bentall.
Author
ISBN
9780814791486 (cl : alk. paper)
0814791484 (cl : alk. paper)
0814791484 (cl : alk. paper)
Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xix, 363 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
616.89 B475d 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)318645675
(OCoLC)318645675
(OCoLC)318645675
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-349) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
I. An illusion of progress. A smashing success?
The appliance of science: the emergence of psychiatry as a medical discipline
Therapeutic innovation at the end of the asylum era
Dissent and resolution: the triumph of biological psychiatry
II. Three myths about mental illness. People or plants?: the myth that psychiatric diagnoses are meaningful
The fundamental error of psychiatry: the myth that psychiatric disorders are genetic diseases
Brains, minds and psychosis: the myth that mental illnesses are brain diseases
III. Medicine for madness. Science, profit and politics in the conduct of clinical trials
Less is probably better: the benefits and costs of antipsychotics
The virtue of kindness: is psychotherapy effective for severe mental illness?
What kind of psychiatry do you want?
The appliance of science: the emergence of psychiatry as a medical discipline
Therapeutic innovation at the end of the asylum era
Dissent and resolution: the triumph of biological psychiatry
II. Three myths about mental illness. People or plants?: the myth that psychiatric diagnoses are meaningful
The fundamental error of psychiatry: the myth that psychiatric disorders are genetic diseases
Brains, minds and psychosis: the myth that mental illnesses are brain diseases
III. Medicine for madness. Science, profit and politics in the conduct of clinical trials
Less is probably better: the benefits and costs of antipsychotics
The virtue of kindness: is psychotherapy effective for severe mental illness?
What kind of psychiatry do you want?
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