| Title |
Our necessary shadow : the nature and meaning of psychiatry / Tom Burns. |
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| Publication Info. |
New York : Pegasus Books, 2014. |
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| Edition |
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xlix, 332 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-309) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Psychiatry -- History.
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Psychiatry -- history. |
| ISBN |
9781605985701 : $27.95 |
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1605985708 |
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| ISBN |
9781605985701 : $27.95 |
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1605985708 |
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