Title:
Our necessary shadow : the nature and meaning of psychiatry / Tom Burns.
Author:
Burns, Tom, 1946- author.
Publication Information:
New York : Pegasus Books, 2014.
Call Number:
RC438 .B87 2014
Abstract:
A lot is written about psychiatry and the things it deals with, but very little that describes psychiatry itself. Why should there be such a need? There isn't a raft of books explaining all the other branches of medicine.
Edition:
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
ISBN:
9781605985701
Physical Description:
xlix, 332 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents:
Introduction: What is psychiatry and what is it for? -- What to expect if you are referred to a psychiatrist -- How modern psychiatry developed. The origins of institutional psychiatry -- The discovery of the unconscious -- The rise and fall of psychoanalysis -- The first medical model (between the wars) -- The impact of war -- Out of the asylum -- the origins of community care -- The questions psychiatry asks about us and the questions we ask of it. Is mental illness real? Psychiatry's legitimacy -- Is psychiatry trustworthy? Psychiatry's sins and abuses -- Is bad behavior any of our business? Psychiatry and the law -- A diagnosis for everything and the medicalization of everyday life -- New treatments but old dilemmas -- The rise of neuroscience and the future of psychiatry --
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