Doctoring the Mind : Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good?.

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Toward the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the ""Prozac Age"" and believed we had moved far b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bentall, Richard P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 1753.
Temas:
Mental illness.
Mental illness > Treatment > Evaluation.
Mental Disorders
Maladies mentales.
Maladies mentales > Traitement > Évaluation.
mental disorders.
Mental illness
Mental illness > Treatment > Evaluation
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Sumario:Toward the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the ""Prozac Age"" and believed we had moved far beyond the time of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful mental healthcare. Biological psychiatry had triumphed. Except maybe it hadn't. Starting with surprising evidence from the World Health Organization that suggests that people recover better from mental illness in a developing country than in the fi.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (385 pages)
ISBN:9780814787236
0814787231

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