Bentall, Richard P  <br/><br/>
Doctoring the mind : why psychiatric treatments fail? 

 - United Kingdom --   Penguin --   2010 
 - xix, 364p. 
<br/><br/> I. An illusion of progress. A smashing success?<br/><br/>The appliance of science: the emergence of psychiatry as a medical discipline<br/><br/>Therapeutic innovation at the end of the asylum era<br/><br/>Dissent and resolution: the triumph of biological psychiatry<br/><br/>II. Three myths about mental illness. People or plants?: the myth that psychiatric diagnoses are meaningful<br/><br/>The fundamental error of psychiatry: the myth that psychiatric disorders are genetic diseases<br/><br/>Brains, minds and psychosis: the myth that mental illnesses are brain diseases<br/><br/>III. Medicine for madness. Science, profit and politics in the conduct of clinical trials<br/><br/>Less is probably better: the benefits and costs of antipsychotics<br/><br/>The virtue of kindness: is psychotherapy effective for severe mental illness?<br/><br/>What kind of psychiatry do you want?<br/> 
<br/><br/> '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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780141023694 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Health and Fitness<br/>Health and Wellbeing<br/>Maladies mentales Traitement<br/>Mental Disorders<br/>Mental Disorders psychology<br/>Mental Disorders therapy<br/>Mental Health Services<br/>Mental illness Treatment<br/>Psychotherapy<br/>United States<br/>Great Britain
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.89 BEN/D