Psychiatry
Subtitle: a very short introduction
Series: Very short introductions
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 18, 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780192807274
Description: Explaining what psychiatry is and what it does, this work looks at the major mental illnesses and how they are treated. It outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'.