Bentall, Richard P
Doctoring the mind : why psychiatric treatments fail? - United Kingdom -- Penguin -- 2010 - xix, 364p.
I. An illusion of progress. A smashing success?
The appliance of science: the emergence of psychiatry as a medical discipline
Therapeutic innovation at the end of the asylum era
Dissent and resolution: the triumph of biological psychiatry
II. Three myths about mental illness. People or plants?: the myth that psychiatric diagnoses are meaningful
The fundamental error of psychiatry: the myth that psychiatric disorders are genetic diseases
Brains, minds and psychosis: the myth that mental illnesses are brain diseases
III. Medicine for madness. Science, profit and politics in the conduct of clinical trials
Less is probably better: the benefits and costs of antipsychotics
The virtue of kindness: is psychotherapy effective for severe mental illness?
What kind of psychiatry do you want?
'Doctoring The Mind' puts the patient back at the heart of treatment for mental illness, arguing that a good relationship between patients and their doctors is the most important indicator of whether someone will recover.
9780141023694
Health and Fitness
Health and Wellbeing
Maladies mentales Traitement
Mental Disorders
Mental Disorders psychology
Mental Disorders therapy
Mental Health Services
Mental illness Treatment
Psychotherapy
United States
Great Britain
616.89 BEN/D
Doctoring the mind : why psychiatric treatments fail? - United Kingdom -- Penguin -- 2010 - xix, 364p.
I. An illusion of progress. A smashing success?
The appliance of science: the emergence of psychiatry as a medical discipline
Therapeutic innovation at the end of the asylum era
Dissent and resolution: the triumph of biological psychiatry
II. Three myths about mental illness. People or plants?: the myth that psychiatric diagnoses are meaningful
The fundamental error of psychiatry: the myth that psychiatric disorders are genetic diseases
Brains, minds and psychosis: the myth that mental illnesses are brain diseases
III. Medicine for madness. Science, profit and politics in the conduct of clinical trials
Less is probably better: the benefits and costs of antipsychotics
The virtue of kindness: is psychotherapy effective for severe mental illness?
What kind of psychiatry do you want?
'Doctoring The Mind' puts the patient back at the heart of treatment for mental illness, arguing that a good relationship between patients and their doctors is the most important indicator of whether someone will recover.
9780141023694
Health and Fitness
Health and Wellbeing
Maladies mentales Traitement
Mental Disorders
Mental Disorders psychology
Mental Disorders therapy
Mental Health Services
Mental illness Treatment
Psychotherapy
United States
Great Britain
616.89 BEN/D