Our necessary shadow
Subtitle: the nature and meaning of psychiatry
By: Tom Burns
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781605985701
Subjects: Psychiatry; History; MEDICAL / Mental Health
Description: A lot is written about psychiatry and the things it deals with, but very little that describes psychiatry itself. Why should there be such a need? There isn't a raft of books explaining all the other branches of medicine.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-309) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What is psychiatry and what is it for? --; title: What to expect if you are referred to a psychiatrist -- -- Part one.; title: How modern psychiatry developed.; title: The origins of institutional psychiatry --; title: The discovery of the unconscious --; title: The rise and fall of psychoanalysis --; title: The first medical model (between the wars) --; title: The impact of war --; title: Out of the asylum -- the origins of community care -- -- Part two.; title: The questions psychiatry asks about us and the questions we ask of it.; title: Is mental illness real? Psychiatry's legitimacy --; title: Is psychiatry trustworthy? Psychiatry's sins and abuses --; title: Is bad behavior any of our business? Psychiatry and the law --; title: A diagnosis for everything and the medicalization of everyday life --; title: New treatments but old dilemmas --; title: The rise of neuroscience and the future of psychiatry ---- Epilogue.