Medicine over Mind : Mental Health Practice in the Biomedical Era /

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We live in an era in which medicalization-the process of conceptualizing and treating a wide range of human experiences as medical problems in need of medical treatment-of mental health troubles has been settled for several decades. Yet little is known about how this biomedical framework affects pra...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Dena T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Colección:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Temas:
Mental illness > Treatment.
Psychiatry.
Psychoanalysis > Methodology.
Psychotropic drugs.
PSYCHOLOGY / General.
Medicine, mental health, health practitioners, medicalization, medical treatment, mental health troubles, biomedical framework, New York City area, mental health treatment, talk therapy, personal strains, professional strains, practitioner experience, mental illness, American medicine, medical sociology, psychiatry, psychology.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Under the Influence of the Biomedical Model
  • Chapter 1. From Meaning Making to Medicalization
  • Chapter 2. Practitioner Portraits and Pathways to Practice
  • Chapter 3. The Promise of "Imperfect Communication" and the "Prison" of Rigid Categorization: The DSM in Practice
  • Chapter 4. Etiological Considerations and the Tools of the Trade: The Role of Medication and Talk Therapy in Practice
  • Chapter 5. The Consequences of the Biomedical Model for Practice and Practitioners: Psychodynamic Therapy in a Biomedical World
  • Conclusion: The Dangling Conversation-Ambiguity in Mental Health Practice
  • Appendix: Notes on the Method and Sam
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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