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Doctoring the mind : is our current treatment of mental illness really any good? /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bentall, Richard P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. An illusion of progress. A smashing success?
  • The appliance of science: the emergence of psychiatry as a medical discipline
  • Therapeutic innovation at the end of the asylum era
  • Dissent and resolution: the triumph of biological psychiatry
  • II. Three myths about mental illness. People or plants?: the myth that psychiatric diagnoses are meaningful
  • The fundamental error of psychiatry: the myth that psychiatric disorders are genetic diseases
  • Brains, minds and psychosis: the myth that mental illnesses are brain diseases
  • III. Medicine for madness. Science, profit and politics in the conduct of clinical trials
  • Less is probably better: the benefits and costs of antipsychotics
  • The virtue of kindness: is psychotherapy effective for severe mental illness?
  • What kind of psychiatry do you want?