Of two minds : the growing disorder in American psychiatry / T.M. Luhrmann.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Luhrmann, T. M. (Tanya M.), 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Psychiatry--Study and teaching.
• Psychiatry.
• Psychiatry--trends.
• Psychotherapy--methods.

Medical Subjects:

• Psychiatry--trends.
• Psychotherapy--methods.

Genre:

• Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xi, 337 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Of 2 minds

Place of Publication:

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2000.

Summary:

A respected young American anthropologist brings her acute intelligence and her sophisticated powers of observation to bear on the world of psychiatry, showing how psychiatrists are trained, how they develop their particular way of seeing and listening to patients, and how the enormous ambiguities in the field affect its practitioners and patients.

Contents:

• Chapter 1 What's Wrong with the Patient? 25
• Chapter 2 The Arrow of Harm 84
• Chapter 3 The Culture and Its Contradictions 119
• Chapter 4 The Psychiatric Scientist and the Psychoanalyst 158
• Chapter 5 Where the Split Came From 203
• Chapter 6 The Crisis of Managed Care 239
• Chapter 7 Madness and Moral Responsibility 266.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328) and index.

ISBN:

0679421912

OCLC:

41951298