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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2009.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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?