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OverviewThis volume critiques and challenges the use and promotion of the disease model in psychiatry, arguing that its misconceived approach prevents the preferred disablement model from becoming the default method to understand mental health conditions, including schizophrenia. Featuring first-hand experiences as well as qualitative and quantitative findings, the book posits that mental illnesses are an expression of disablement, not disease, and that the alternative disablement approach (already being applied in the psychiatry of neurodevelopmental disorders but applicable to mental illness, too) allows for greater dignity and autonomy for the patient, collaboration between medical professionals, a replacement of categorical approaches with more appropriate dimensional ones, and a liberation from the restrictive idea of a ‘cure’. The initial chapters of the book summarize the now overwhelming evidence that the disease model is flawed, as is the simplistic materialism that psychiatry has built around the concept of the brain as a kind of standalone biological computer. The later chapters consider the currently existent alternatives to the disease model and put forward the evidence for a psychiatry based on the person, as described by the philosopher Heidegger among others. This volume will appeal to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students in clinical psychiatry, mental health research, and psychotherapy. Psychologists and clinicians active in research or teaching in mental health will also benefit from this volume. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Digby Tantam (Middlesex University, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.660kg ISBN: 9781032704258ISBN 10: 103270425 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 22 August 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1. The origins of psychiatric disease theory Chapter 2 Materialism as a symptom Chapter 3 Does diagnosis always label a disease? Chapter 4 Investigating psychiatry’s preoccupation with disease Chapter 5 Why genomic medicine will not apply to psychiatry Chapter 6 Prescribing the cure Chapter 7 Neurodevelopmental disorder as a model for every mental health condition Chapter 8 Widening the neurodevelopmental model to the whole of psychiatry Chapter 9 A Possible New Future for PsychiatryReviews“There are few better people who have the breadth of experience, knowledge or skill to lead the debate about the relationship between disease models in neurodevelopmental psychiatry. The book will help to shape a debate that is both timely and important to address.” - Professor Raja Mukherjee, Consultant Neurodevelopmental Psychiatrist Author InformationDigby Tantam studied at Oxford, Harvard, London, and the Open Universities. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the British Psychological Society, and the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy. He is an emeritus professor in the School of Medicine and Population, University of Sheffield; a director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling; and a visiting professor at Middlesex University, UK. He has worked as a psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service for over 40 years. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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