Doctoring the mind : is our current treatment of mental illness really any good? /

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Author / Creator:	Bentall, Richard P.
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, c2009.
Description:	xix, 363 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Mental illness. Mental illness -- Treatment -- Evaluation. Mental Disorders -- psychology -- Great Britain. Mental Disorders -- psychology -- United States. Mental Disorders -- therapy -- Great Britain. Mental Disorders -- therapy -- United States. Mental Health Services -- Great Britain. Mental health services -- United States. Psychiatry -- methods -- Great Britain. Psychiatry -- methods -- United States. Psychotherapy -- Great Britain. Psychotherapy -- United States. Mental illness. Mental illness -- Treatment -- Evaluation.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7913389

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ISBN:	9780814791486 (cl : alk. paper) 0814791484 (cl : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface: Rational Antipsychiatry
Part 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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 Severe Mental Illness?
11. What Kind of Psychiatry Do You Want?
Notes
Index

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