Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry
In what will be a tour de force in the field of psychiatry in all its complexity and depth, this important new volume explores the essential paradox of psychiatry-and offers a balanced understanding of its history and development in the medical world. Much is written about psychiatry, but very little that describes psychiatry itself. Why should there be such a need? For good or ill, psychiatry is a polemical battleground, criticized on the one hand as an instrument of social control, while on the other the latest developments in neuroscience are trumpeted as lasting solutions to mental illness.Which of these strikingly contrasting positions s…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-60598-836-8
- EAN: 9781605988368
- Produktnummer: 20239441
- Verlag: Pegasus Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H22.1 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.5 cm 363 g
- Gewicht: 363
Über den Autor
Tom Burns is Professor of Social Psychiatry at Oxford University. In addition to his clinical and teaching work, he has produced nearly two hundred peer-reviewed scientific articles. He lives in England.
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