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OverviewPsychiatry 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? 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Tom BurnsPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.281kg ISBN: 9780241954430ISBN 10: 0241954436 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 05 June 2014 Audience: General/trade , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsSuperbly clear history of psychiatry ... -- Bryan Appleyard, Pick of the Paperbacks Sunday Times Superbly clear history of psychiatry ... -- Bryan Appleyard, Pick of the Paperbacks * Sunday Times * Author InformationTom Burns is Professor of Social Psychiatry at Oxford University. From the late 1980s he has conducted research, in addition his clinical and teaching work, and has produced nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles. His work into Assertive Community Treatment care for severe psychosis, home based care for general psychiatry, and services to help patients with schizophrenia return to work, has been internationally important. He is currently researching a number of aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, especially those which are experienced as unequal or coercive. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |