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Psychiatry Reconsidered : From Medical Treatment to Supportive Understanding / by H. Middleton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Middleton, H., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clinical psychology.
- Critical psychology.
- Psychiatry.
- Social medicine.
- Psychology, Pathological.
- Clinical Psychology.
- Critical Psychology.
- Medical Sociology.
- Psychopathology.
- Local Subjects:
- Clinical Psychology.
- Critical Psychology.
- Psychiatry.
- Medical Sociology.
- Psychopathology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XI, 249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Summary:
- Psychiatry suffers a lot of criticism, not least from within its own scientifically founded medical world. This book provides an account of mental health difficulties and how they are generally addressed in conventional medical circles, alongside critical reviews of the assumptions underpinning them to encourage more humanitarian perspectives.
- Contents:
- ICD chapter V and DSM : cataloguing mental illness
- Misunderstandings of "diagnosis"
- Psychopharmacology : the medicines of psychiatry
- Psychopharmacology reconsidered
- "Psychotherapy"
- Public service psychiatry as it really is
- All in the mind
- So what can be learned?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Middleton, Hugh, 1950- Psychiatry reconsidered : from medical treatment to supportive understanding.
- ISBN:
- 9781137384904
- 1137384905
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