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Medicine over mind : mental health practice in the biomedical era /

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 p...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Smith, Dena T. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Collection:Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • From meaning-making to medicalization
  • Practitioner portraits and pathways to practice
  • The promise of 'imperfect communication' and the 'prison' of rigid categorization : the DSM in practice
  • Etiological considerations and the tools of the trade : the role of medication and talk therapy in practice
  • 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.