Psychiatry: a very short introduction / Tom Burns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burns, Tom, 1946- author.

Series:

Very short introductions ; 152.

Very short introductions ; 152

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry.

Medical Subjects:

Psychiatry.

Physical Description:

xviii, 132 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Explaining what psychiatry is and what it does, this work looks at the major mental illnesses and how they are treated. It outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'.

Contents:

What is psychiatry?

Asylums and the origins of psychiatry

The move into the community

Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy

Psychiatry under attack - inside and out

Open to abuse

Into the 21st century.

Notes:

"First edition published 2006"-- Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index.

ISBN:

9780198826200

0198826206

OCLC:

1060593285