Our necessary shadow : the nature and meaning of psychiatry / Tom Burns.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2014Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover editionDescription: xlix, 332 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781605985701
  • 1605985708
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.89009 23
LOC classification:
  • RC438 .B87 2014
NLM classification:
  • WM 11.1
Contents:
Introduction: What is psychiatry and what is it for? -- What to expect if you are referred to a psychiatrist -- Part one. 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 two. 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 behavior 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 -- Epilogue.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-309) and index.

Introduction: What is psychiatry and what is it for? -- What to expect if you are referred to a psychiatrist -- Part one. 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 two. 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 behavior 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 -- Epilogue.

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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