Doctoring the mind : is our current treatment of mental illness really any good? / Richard P. Bentall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bentall, Richard P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness.

Mental illness--Treatment--Evaluation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Toward the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the "Prozac Age" and believed we had moved far beyond the time of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful mental healthcare. Biological psychiatry had triumphed. Except maybe it hadn't. Starting with surprising evidence from the World Health Organization that suggests that people recover better from mental illness in a developing country than in the first world, this book asks the question: how good are our mental healthcare services, really?

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Preface: Rational Antipsychiatry

1. A Smashing Success?

2. The Appliance of Science: The Emergence of Psychiatry as a Medical Discipline

3. Therapeutic Innovation at the End of the Asylum Era

4. Dissent and Resolution: The Triumph of Biological Psychiatry

5. People or Plants? The Myth that Psychiatric Diagnoses are Meaningful

6. The Fundamental Error of Psychiatry: The Myth that Psychiatric Disorders are Genetic Diseases

7. Brains, Minds and Psychosis: The Myth that Mental Illnesses are Brain Diseases

8. Science, Profit and Politics in the Conduct of Clinical Trials

9. Less is Probably Better: The Benefits and Costs of Antipsychotics

10. The Virtue of Kindness: Is Psychotherapy Effective for Severe Mental Illness?

11. What Kind of Psychiatry Do You Want?

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780814739143

0814739148

9781441626943

1441626948

OCLC:

503553748