Psychiatry: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Psychiatry: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192807274

ISBN-10: 0192807277

ISBN-13: 9780192807274

Edition: 2006

Authors: Tom Burns

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Psychiatry is now a highly visible activity - care in the community, compulsion, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse mean that few people are not touched by it. Indeed one in four of us will consult a psychiatrist in our life time. This book explains what psychiatry is, and what it is not. It starts with the identification of the major mental illnesses and why they are no longer considered just variations of 'normality'. It charts the rise of the Asylum and its demise with thedevelopments of Care in the Community, and the flourishing of psychoanalysis and its later transformation into more accessible psychotherapies.More than any other branch of medicine psychiatry has been attacked and…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/6/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.85" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Preface


List of illustrations



What is psychiatry?



Asylums and the origins of psychiatry



The move into the community



Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy



Psychiatry under attack



Open to abuse



Into the 21st century


Further reading


Index