Superbly clear history of psychiatry ...
- Bryan Appleyard, Pick of the Paperbacks, Sunday Times
In this deeply thoughtful, descriptive and sympathetic book, Tom Burns reviews the historical development of psychiatry. What he reveals is that mental illnesses are intimately tied to that which makes us human in the first place and have always followed us. The drive to relieve the suffering they cause is even more human. Psychiatry, for all its flaws, currently represents our best attempts to discharge this most human of impulses. It is not something we can just ignore or decide to leave. It is our necessary shadow.
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Reviews the historical development of psychiatry. In this book, the author shows that mental illnesses are intimately tied to that which makes us human in the first place and have always followed us. Psychiatry, for all its flaws, represents our best attempts to discharge this most human of impulses.
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Superbly clear history of psychiatry ...
Psychiatry is a battleground, criticised on the one hand as an instrument of social control, while on the other as offering lasting solutions to mental illness. Which of these contrasting positions should we believe? What is the truth about psychiatry?
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780241954430
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
281 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384
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