Out of its mind : psychiatry in crisis : a call for reform / J. Allan Hobson, Jonathan A. Leonard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobson, J. Allan, 1933-

Contributor:

Leonard, Jonathan A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry.

Neurosciences.

Physical Description:

xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Pub., [2001]

Summary:

Should psychiatrists treat the mind or the brain? Harvard psychiatrist Hobson and journalist Leonard explore the roots of this question and propose a more balanced "humanistic" psychiatry that embraces rather than shuns neuroscience.

Contents:

Part 1 Psychiatry's Lost Mind

1 The Unfinished Revolution 3

2 Out of Bedlam 19

3 Psychiatry's Rise 37

4 Psychiatry's Downfall 49

Part 2 Finding the Mind's Brain

5 Consciousness: The Master Magician and the Waterfall 71

6 Sleep and the Dance of Dreams 101

7 Mapping Inner Space: New Models of Mental Order and Disorder 119

Part 3 Psychiatry and the Brain

8 Anxiety and the Fear Machine 135

9 Searching for Doctor Doom 159

10 The Land of Voices 179

Part 4 Prescription for a New Psychiatry

11 Rescue and Resuscitation 209

12 Neurodynamics: Toward a New Psychology 223

13 The Road to Reform: What Can Be Done Now? 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0738202517

OCLC:

47088192