Doctoring the mind : why psychiatric treatments fail / Richard P. Bentall.
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TextPublication details: London : Allen Lane, 2009.Description: xix, 363 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780713998894 (hbk.) :
- 9780713998894 (hbk.) :
- Mental illness -- Treatment -- Great Britain -- Evaluation
- Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States -- Evaluation
- Mental health services -- Great Britain -- Evaluation
- Mental health services -- United States -- Evaluation
- Mental illness -- Treatment -- Great Britain
- Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States
- Mental health services -- Great Britain
- Mental health services -- United States
- Health and Wellbeing
- Psychiatry
- History of medicine
- 616.891 BEN
- RC480.5
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| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 616.891 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 208109 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One: An illusion of progress:- 1. A smashing success?-- 2. The appliance of science: the emergence of psychiatry as a medical discipline--3.Therapeutic innovation at the end of the asylum era-- 4.Dissent and resolution: the triumph of biological psychiatry--Part two: Three myths about mental illness:- 5. People or plants? The myth that psychiatric diagnoses are meaningful-- 6. The fundamental error of psychiatry: the myth that psychiatric disorders are genetic diseases-- 7.Brains, Minds and Psychosis: The myth that mental illnesses are brain diseases-- Part three: Medicine for madness:- 8. Science, profit and politics in the conduct of clinical trials--9.Less is probably better: the benefits and costs of antipsychotics-- 10.The virtue of kindness: Is psychotherapy effective for sever mental illness-- 11. 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.