Psychiatry : past, present, and prospect / edited by Sidney Bloch, Stephen A. Green, Jeremy Holmes.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Bloch, Sidney, editor.
• Green, Stephen A., 1945- editor.
• Holmes, Jeremy, 1943- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Psychiatry--History.
• Psychiatry.
• History.
• Mental Disorders.

Medical Subjects:

• Mental Disorders.
• Psychiatry.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 413 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Psychiatry; Past, Present, and Prospect brings together perspectives from a group of highly respected contributors to the field of mental health in all its facets. The topics cover a range of scientific and clinical developments: biological and psychological, advances in treatment and conceptual breakthroughs, as well as negative aspects: poor agreement about psychiatry's boundaries, the limitations of diagnosis and classification, the complexity of community-based mental health, the divide between proponents of biological treatments and psychological therapies, the technical and ethical challenges of research, and the low priority given to psychiatric services and research, especially in low income countries. The result is a text full of collected wisdom which promotes the curiosity of all mental health professionals about key developments since the 1950s and serves as a valuable archival resource. It also sensitizes the next generation of mental health professionals and research investigators to the role they might play in advancing the state of knowledge about mental illness and its treatment during the course of their career. This volume provides fascinating reading for all professionals concerned with mental health including psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric nurses and occupational therapists, both trained and in training, as well as neuroscientists and social scientists. It also offers the interested laity a balanced account of the evolution of psychiatry during the past half-century, and its likely prospects in the 21st century. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1.Psychiatry and neuroscience / Steven E. Hyman
• 2.The past, present, and future of psychiatric genetics / Peter McGuffin
• 3.Fifty years of applied clinical research: schizophrenia as an example / Robin M. Murray
• 4.Social science and psychiatry, and the causes of mental disorders / Ezra Susser
• 5.The history of cultural psychiatry in the last half-century / Arthur Kleinman
• 6.History and development of social psychiatry / Julian Leff
• 7.Psychiatry in developed and developing countries / Norman Sartorius
• 8.Fifty years of mental health legislation: paternalism, bound and unbound / George Szmukler
• 9.The ethical dimension in psychiatry / Sidney Bloch
• 10.Defining and classifying mental illness / German E. Berrios
• 11.From alienist to collaborator: the twisting road to consultation-liaison psychiatry / Don R. Lipsitt
• 12.Child and adolescent psychopathology: past scientific achievements and future challenges / Michael Rutter
• Contents note continued: 13.Psychiatry of old age / Catherine Oppenheimer
• 14.The forensic psychiatric specialty: from the birth to the subliming / Danny H. Sullivan
• 15.Trauma and psychiatry / Arieh Y. Shalev
• 16.Psychiatry and the addictions / Jerome H. Jaffe
• 17.Personality disorders / Edwin Harari
• 18.Psychopharmacology / Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic
• 19.Convulsive and non-convulsive treatments in psychiatry / Max Fink
• 20.Cognitive theory and therapy: past, present, and future / David J. A. Dozois
• 21.Psychodynamic psychiatry
• -rise, decline, revival / Jeremy Holmes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 0199638969
• 9780199638963

OCLC:

881317790

Publisher Number:

60001914754