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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 September 2006
- ISBN 9780192807274
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages160 pages
- Size 170x110x9 mm
- Weight 137 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 B&W 0
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Short description:
With diagnoses based on thoughts, behaviour, and emotions, psychiatry has always aroused strong feelings. This book explains what psychiatry is and what it does. It looks at the major illnesses and how they are treated, and outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'.
MoreLong description:
Psychiatry is now a highly visible activity - care in the community, compulsion, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse mean that few people are not touched by it. Indeed one in four of us will consult a psychiatrist in our life time. This book explains what psychiatry is, and what it is not. It starts with the identification of the major mental illnesses and why they are no longer considered just variations of 'normality'. It charts the rise of the Asylum and its demise
with the developments of Care in the Community, and the flourishing of psychoanalysis and its later transformation into more accessible psychotherapies.
More than any other branch of medicine psychiatry has been attacked and criticised. There is a long catalogue of abuses - from mundane neglect and bizarre treatments through to political abuse by totalitarian regimes. Modern psychiatry too brings with it new controversies such as the medicalization of normal life, the power of the drug companies and the use of psychiatry as an agent of social control. The book does not shy away from outlining these issues but provides the reader with a clear
understanding of what psychiatry is capable of, and what it is not capable of, so that they can draw their own conclusions.
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Table of Contents:
What is Psychiatry?
Asylums and the origins of psychiatry
Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
The move into the community
Psychiatry under attack - inside and out
Open to abuse
Into the 21st Century
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