Psychiatry reconsidered
Subtitle: from medical treatment to supportive understanding
By: Hugh Middleton, Associate Professor, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, and Consultant Psychiatrist, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781137411365
Subjects: Psychiatry; Mental health services; Psychopharmacology; Organization & administration; Mental Health Services
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: ICD chapter V and DSM : cataloguing mental illness; title: Misunderstandings of "diagnosis"; title: Psychopharmacology : the medicines of psychiatry; title: Psychopharmacology reconsidered; title: "Psychotherapy"; title: Public service psychiatry as it really is; title: All in the mind; title: So what can be learned?