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Title:
Psychiatry: a very short introduction / Tom Burns.
Author:
Burns, Tom, 1946- author.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Call Number:
RC454 .B8435 2018
Abstract:
Explaining what psychiatry is and what it does, this work looks at the major mental illnesses and how they are treated. It outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'.
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9780198826200
Series:
Very short introductions ; 152

Very short introductions ; 152.
Physical Description:
xviii, 132 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
General Note:
"First edition published 2006"-- Title page verso.
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Contents:
What is psychiatry? -- Asylums and the origins of psychiatry -- The move into the community -- Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy -- Psychiatry under attack - inside and out -- Open to abuse -- Into the 21st century.
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