The mind has mountains
Subtitle: reflections on society and psychiatry
By: Paul R. McHugh.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Psychiatry.; Psychiatry -- Philosophy.; Psychiatry -- Collected Works.; Mental Disorders -- Collected Works.; Philosophy, Medical -- Collected Works.; Psychological Theory -- Collected Works.
Genres: Collected Works.
Description: "From strenuous opposition to physician-assisted suicide to a conviction that sex-correction surgery for newborn in cruel and misguided, Dr. Paul R. McHugh's opinions are strong and often controversial. In this collection of essays, McHugh demonstrates why he is one of the most thought-provoking figures in the academic world." "These pieces argue for a realistic appraisal of just what psychiatrists know and how they know it, with the aim of indicating how such knowledge can best be used not only for better patient care but also to reflect on and influence public issues and social movements. His essays will stimulate professional and popular discussion about the goals and effectiveness of current psychiatric practice." "McHugh sorts through the layers of what he terms the "culturally driven misdirection of psychiatry and psychotherapy" to explain concepts often misunderstood by nonscholars and the intellectual community alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Psychiatric misadventures; title: Psychotherapy awry; title: What's the story?; title: How psychiatry lost its way; title: Romancing depression; title: The Kevorkian epidemic; title: Dying made easy; title: Hippocrates ... la mode; title: The death of Freud and the rebirth of psychiatry; title: The end of a delusion: the psychiatric memory wars are over; title: Dissociative identity disorder is a socially constructed artifact; title: From refusal to reconciliation: family relationships after an accusation based on recovered memories; title: Genius in a time, place, and person: foreword to General psychopathology, volume I; title: William Osler and the new psychiatry; title: Psychiatry and its scientific relatives: "a little more than kin and less than kind"; title: A structure for psychiatry at the century's turn: the view from Johns Hopkins; title: Striving for coherence: psychiatry's efforts in classification; title: Treating the mind as well as the brain; title: Consciousness revisited; title: Another psychiatrist's Shakespeare; title: Surgical sex; title: No veterinarian to "the naked ape"; title: Zygote and "clonote": the ethical use of embryonic stem cells; title: A psychiatrist looks at terrorism.