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Psychiatry reconsidered : from medical treatment to supportive understanding /
Psychiatry suffers a lot of criticism, not least from within its own scientifically founded medical world. Much of this can be understood as a consequence of trying to force the round pegs of unhappiness, fear, confusion and distress into the square hole of medical science. This book provides an acc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Psychiatry suffers a lot of criticism, not least from within its own scientifically founded medical world. Much of this can be understood as a consequence of trying to force the round pegs of unhappiness, fear, confusion and distress into the square hole of medical science. 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. Reasons are given for why truly scientific justifications for the use of psychiatric medicines are hard to find. Psychotherapies, though often helpful are shown to be largely so because they offer a healing relationship, rather than because they convey expertise in one or another of the many psychotherapeutic techniques. These inescapable conclusions have profound implications for how mental health difficulties might be better considered and provided for. They encourage approaches which focus much more upon social and humanitarian perspectives, than scientific ones. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781137384904 1137384905 |