Burns, Tom,  1946- <br/><br/>
Our necessary shadow :  the nature and meaning of psychiatry / 
Tom Burns. 
 - First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. 
 - xlix, 332 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-309) and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction: What is psychiatry and what is it for? --  What to expect if you are referred to a psychiatrist --  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 --  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 --  Part one.  Part two.  Epilogue. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781605985701 1605985708 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychiatry--History.<br/>Psychiatry.<br/>MEDICAL / Mental Health.<br/>Psychiatry--history.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC438  / .B87 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.89009 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WM 11.1  / B967o 2014