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.