Doctoring the Mind: Why psychiatric treatments fail - Rilegato

Bentall, Richard P

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ISBN 10: 071399889X ISBN 13: 9780713998894

Casa editrice: Allen Lane, 2009

Riassunto

Towards the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the 'Prozac Age' and believed we had moved on definitively from the time of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful mental healthcare. Biological psychiatry had triumphed.

Except maybe it hadn't. Starting with surprising evidence from the World Health Organisation that suggests people recover better from mental illness in a developing country than in the first world, Doctoring the Mind asks the question: how good are our mental health services, really? Richard Bentall picks apart the science that underlies current psychiatric practice across the US and UK. Arguing passionately for a future of mental health treatment that focuses as much on patients as individuals as on the brain itself, this is a book set to redefine our understanding of the treatment of madness in the twenty-first century.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Richard Bentall has held chairs in clinical psychology at the universities of Liverpool and Manchester, and is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Bangor in Wales. Known internationally for his research into the causes and treatment of severe mental illness, his previous book, Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature won the British Psychological Society Book Award for 2004.

Product Description:

verso la fine del XX secolo, la soluzione alla malattia mentale sembra essere trovato. 'lay in biologico Solutions. litigare per un futuro della salute mentale trattamento che si concentra tanto su pazienti come persone fisiche per quanto riguarda il cervello in sé, questo libro si propone di ridefinire la nostra comprensione del regime della follia nel xxi secolo.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Allen Lane
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 071399889X
• ISBN 13: 9780713998894
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304