Psychiatry Reconsidered

From Medical Treatment to Supportive Understanding
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-41136-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 249 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 4336 g

Psychiatry suffers a lot of criticism, not least from within its own scientifically founded medical world. This book provides an account of mental health difficulties and how they are generally addressed in conventional medical circles, alongside critical reviews of the assumptions underpinning them to encourage more humanitarian perspectives.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Middleton, H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Neuropharmakologie, Psychopharmakologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents Introduction 1. ICD Chapter V and DSM. Cataloguing Mental Illness 2. Misunderstandings of 'Diagnosis' 3. Psychopharmacology: The Medicines of Psychiatry 4. Psychopharmacology Reconsidered 5. 'Psychotherapy' 6. Public Service Psychiatry As It Really Is 7. All In The Mind 8. So What Can Be Learned? Endnote

Über Autor(innen)

Hugh Middleton has been an NHS Consultant Psychiatrist for more than twenty 20 years. He is also an academic who teaches social science undergraduates and PhD candidates, medical students and doctors.